Personal Grooming

This category includes items associated with personal hygiene and/or altering appearance through cosmetics.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
12373K	(none)	1929,1017.191	(none)	Group: [A] Gold hair ribbon. [B.1-.2] 2 gold large lunate earrings. [C] Wreath of gold leaves on lapis and carnelian beads. [D-E] 2 silver wire spiral coil hair rings. [F] Necklace of gold and lapis triangles. [G] Necklace of lapis double conoid and gold double conoid beads (for order see field notes). [H.1-.2] Necklace of 2 rows of silver beads. [I-L] Cockleshells with greenish paint. [M Toggle Pin]
10775A	(none)	1928,1010.703	(none)	[A-C] 3 Bone Combs. All in poor condition. Decayed and fragmentary. [drawing]
10166	(none)	1928,1010.366	(none)	Copper Reticule Normal type: Manicure tools attached to a ring
9989	(none)	1928,1010.295	(none)	Cockle Shell Containing green paint
10706	(none)	1928,1010.282	(none)	2 cockle shells One containing black paint
9695	(none)	1928,1010.262	(none)	Copper reticule normal type
10901B	(none)	1928,1010.234	(none)	[A-B] Silver Cockle Shells a pair fastened together by corrosion, presumably containing paint
10966D	(none)	1928,1010.231	(none)	Cockle-shells. Containing green and white paint, of unusually large size, the biggest being 145mm, across.
10966C	(none)	1928,1010.230	(none)	Cockle-shells. Containing green and white paint, of unusually large size, the biggest being 145mm, across.
10932A	(none)	1928,1010.14	(none)	[A-B] Gold Cockle-shells. Pair. modeled on the real, the ribs rendered by engraved lines. Inside one is green paint. [drawing]
8345A.2	(none)	1928,1009.416	(none)	[A.1 and A.2] 2 cockle shells. Containing green paint.
9127A	(none)	1928,1009.365	(none)	[A] Copper stiletto and [B] tweezers (imperfect). Originally together on a ring. Type as of the gold example.
7886	(none)	1928,1009.342	(none)	Copper reticule. Usual cone with knob end: the case is broken, exposing the implements, viz: a tiny knife or spatula, a second apparently similar, a chisel-edged tool(?), a rod, possibly a kohl-stick [drawing]
9275	(none)	1928,1009.341	(none)	Copper reticule Usual type
7968	(none)	1928,1009.340	(none)	Copper reticule. Normal triangular type with 4 tools inside on a loop.
7859	(none)	1928,1009.339	(none)	Copper reticule. Cone-shaped with base knob. In it 4 small copper toilet instruments held together by a copper ring.
(none)	(none)	1928,1009.338	(none)	(none)
8000	(none)	1928,1009.184	(none)	Three silver cockle shells. One inside the other. The inner one shows signs of a red substance perhaps a pigment. Natural size.
8510	(none)	1928,1009.152	(none)	Gold stiletto and tweezers The tweezers are made with 2 pieces of gold welded together but left separate at the ends, forming thus a spring. They are pointed and flat with extreme width of 00045. The stiletto is quadrangular in section tapering to a point. The rings are made by drawing out the metal itself into a long wire which is bent over and twisted round itself. [drawing, 1:1, showing the two objects joined with a ring]
6772	(none)	1927,0527.209	(none)	Palette. Alabaster. Mottled. Rectangular. E.
450	(none)	1923,1110.146	(none)	Ivory comb. Found in fragments and fitted together. Teeth broken away. On the solid part a simple decoration of lines and cross-hatching. [drawing 1:1]
(none)	(none)	1919,1011.5043	(none)	(none)
314	(none)	(none)	(none)	Ivory comb. Frs of : the top decorated with str lines and zigzags.
419	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze kohl-stick. Top broken. [drawing 1:1]
519	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze kohl-stick. The end slightly thickened to a knob, the top broken off.