3 thoughts on “Resource Library”

1. John Faulkner April 13, 2012 at 10:53 am

   Good Day Barbara Anne,

   I have been enjoying your blog, so I wanted to share
   my novelty comb project with you.
   All the best,
   John
   http://www.indiegogo.com/presidentialpick

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   1. BarbaraAnne Post authorApril 14, 2012 at 5:56 pm

      Fabulous. You know African comb making is rich in historical tradition. You can see the collection of the Creative Museum, http://www.creative-museum.com. Slavery took away everything, names, culture, oral history, language, everything. But somehow, in America the culture came out in other ways. In combs, I used to look at the pick combs in the supermarket and see them as the death of culture because in Africa, that handle used to be superbly carved symbols of fertility, ancestor worship, and history. Chiefs wore them. Then came the Black Power comb, and the idea to put a cultural symbol on the handle came back. Now you come to us with this! I absolutely love it. And I also love Obama.

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2. M. Chaiklin December 23, 2012 at 10:25 pm

   You might want to include our book in your resources

   Asian Material Culture, edited by Marianne Huslbosch, Elizabeth Bedford and Martha Chaiklin, Amsterdam University Press, 2010. It contains 2 articles on hair ornaments, one on Japanese ornaments, and one on Southeast Asian ornaments.

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