Two different combs wood and pigments carved decoration "Geometric motifs". Angolans - Tshokwe (related peoples) 20th C. (mid) minor defects, patina wear one purchased in the village of Caviva (approximately 31 km south of Cubal), in May 1965, the other purchased in Lubango (former Sá da Bandeira), in 1969 Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - (o maior) 17,3 cm Notes: Provenance: Collection of Engineer Elísio Romariz dos Santos Silva, items numbered 129 and 133 referred to in the collector's notebook «Angola - Arte Negra, Relação e descrição das peças», each identified as «Pente»: Item nº 129 is described, containing a "Crosspiece in the shape of a bell decorated with incisions; on one side, an animal with horns (possibly an ox); on the other 4 lozenges in a cross connected by their apexes. The edges of the bell are decorated with two bands of incisions. [...] Purchased in the village of Caviva (approximately 31 km south of Cubal) in May 1965 [...]." Item number 133 is referred to in the notebook, containing a "Crosspiece decorated on one side only, rectangular with rounded corners; the decoration is made by incisions - at the centre two ribbons in small pyramidal spikes with a square base (3 series on each ribbon); The sides are decorated with the same spikes forming lozenges. [...] Purchased in Lubango (former Sá da Bandeira) in 1969 [...]."