SOLD Unusual Old Carved Comb with Booted Leg Shaped Handle for the hipster home I swoon at the minimalist

I swoon at the minimalist yarn drawings

Carved of wood with polychrome in light brown with chocolate brown patches

Clean cut and unsoiled

looking a bit like a hand with one long finger pointing toward something

upon seeing a selection of them in Documenta 13

SOLD Unusual Old Carved Comb with Booted Leg Shaped Handle for the hipster home I swoon at the minimalistCertainly this is an old, hand carved brush comb, with its paddle bearing a field of thin metal spikes set into the wood, but I am not completely sure its origins it has an American folk art feel to it, with what looks like a carved boot at the end of the handle, cross hatch pattern carved into the reverse side of the paddle, and old white paint over that and I would think used as a sort of carding comb, for wool. But in the Africa Museum in Brussels,