A fine Asante comb

the plaque-like body with cut-out shoulders framing the pointed breasts and carved amulet and decorated with rows of incised alternating squares at the front and a triangle at the back, the slender ridged neck supporting the diamond-shaped head with prominent nose and brows and an upswept tri-partite coiffure, all above a row of ten tines; fine and varied, slightly encrusted deep brown patina.

Robert Duperrier, Paris
Merton D. Simpson, New York, April 13, 1965

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Public Museum, Selections from The William W. Brill Colllection of African Art, May 5 - August 31, 1969 (for additional venues see bibliography, Milwaukee 1969)

See Cole and Ross (1977: 52, figure 89) for a related closely example formerly in the Schindler Collection.