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

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
7907 (none) (none) (none) Kohl stick case. Ivory. Plain tube rounded at base. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
7908 (none) (none) (none) Kohl stick. Ivory. Rectangular in section, thickening towards the head and then sharpened to point.
7913 (none) (none) (none) Comb. Ivory. White. Fragment. Two rows of teeth; one row has been worn down at an angle. The flat space between the tooth-rows decorated with lines and dotted circles.
7968 (none) 1928,1009.340 (none) Copper reticule. Normal triangular type with 4 tools inside on a loop.
7984A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of cockle-shells. Containing white pigment.
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.
8001A (none) (none) (none) Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment.
8001B (none) (none) (none) Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment.
8001C (none) (none) (none) Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment.
8013D (none) (none) B16838 [A and B] Two silver bracelets. Made of three twists of wire. To one of these is attached by corrosion an [C] object of silver apparently containing a cockle shell [D]; the cockle shell has in it green pigment and was covered by a silver shell (broken) thus: [drawing] though it is impossible to say whether the shell is really belonging or only accidentally attached. Various beads are also attached by corrosion to the bracelet and also [E] an eye of lapis with white shell filling.
8037 (none) (none) (none) Copper reticule. Normal type with 4 instruments.
8081 (none) (none) (none) Cockle shells. Containing black and green pigment.
8133A (none) (none) (none) 2 cockle shells. One containing white, the other containing yellow paint [A-B].
8133B (none) (none) (none) 2 cockle shells. One containing white, the other containing yellow paint. [A-B].
8138A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 cockle shells. Containing traces of brown and green paint.
8138B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 cockle shells. Containing traces of brown and green paint.
8145A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 cockle shells containing green paint.
8145B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 cockle shells containing green paint.
8167 (none) (none) (none) Cockle shell. Containing green paint.
8192 (none) (none) B17040 Cockle shell. Containing green paint.
8205 (none) (none) (none) Cockle shells. A pair. Containing green paint.
8222 (none) (none) B17187 Cockle shells. Five, containing paint. [4 shells under this number in UPM?]
8278A (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Copper Reticules. Base broken away in each case. Only A has lip intact. [drawing] 1:1
8278B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Copper Reticules. Base broken away in each case. Only A has lip intact. [drawing 1:1]
8278C (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Copper Reticules. Base broken away in each case. Only A has lip intact. [drawing 1:1]