Comb Ashanti kingdom, modern Ghana, West Africa. Wood; H.20 cm
Bayern Museum, Germany. From the Egypt of the Pharaohs, such combs, are found everywhere in black Africa: Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Chad, Niger, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Guinea… Material culture, objects of care, the texture of the hair, nature of the hair (racial index for anthropology
descriptive physics): deep cultural unity of the black world, since Antiquity.