Typically made by the Inuit man for his wife, a bone or ivory comb was a treasured keepsake. These examples are haircombs; other combs were made for processing grass strands or sinew fibers. Some combs were quite plain while others incorporated effigies of seal, caribou and whale. The curvature of the carved bone gave the decorated side of the combs a convex face. The concave sides are shown in image 3.

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