When did you first start using combs? Detailed answer

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When did you first start using combs?

Once a woman realized that she could become more attractive if she styled her hair in a special, unusual way. That's when the hairbrush probably appeared. A comb is a very simple device with "teeth" that, passing through the hair, makes it neat.

The Papuans lived on the island of New Guinea. They had very coarse, thick hair in tight curls. Some believe that it was the Papuans who invented the comb to straighten these curls to a huge shock on the back of the head.

The comb is one of the oldest human inventions. Some of them were made of bone, others of wood or horn. Such combs were found at the site of a settlement of ancient people on the shores of a Swiss lake. The Egyptians had ivory combs. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York displays thousands of years of Egyptian ebony and ivory combs. The amazing thing is that they look modern and could be used by any of our women.

At an early stage of civilization, people made combs from whatever was at hand. For example, from bamboo, as in certain parts of Asia, or from the veins of a coconut palm leaf, as among the inhabitants of the Polynesian Islands. In New Guinea, combs were made from bull horns.

Medieval artists tried to decorate combs as much as possible. On some of them you can find images of saints, others are decorated with glass or gold. There are copies with Latin inscriptions.

Author: Likum A.

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