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Toilet and Hygiene

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  • Tattoing needles, bronze mounted in bone
  • Conjectured female costume of early Iron Age.
  • Conjectured female costume of early Bronze Age.
  • Neolithic clay stamps for applying design on the body.
  • Iron Age toilet bronze mirror
  • Set of bottles for holding scent or other preparations
  • Illustration of Bronze razors
  • Iron Age depilatory tweezers.
  • Bone comb, supposedly Neolithic, from Gullrum Swedeh
  • Iron Age toilet instruments including curettes.
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  • view Conjectured female costume of early Bronze Age.
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    Conjectured female costume of early Bronze Age.

  • view Conjectured male costume during Bronze Age.
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    Conjectured male costume during Bronze Age.

  • view Iron Age depilatory tweezers.
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    Iron Age depilatory tweezers.

  • view Toilet Instruments (Iron Age).
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    Toilet Instruments (Iron Age).

  • view Neolithic clay stamps for applying design on the body.
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    Neolithic clay stamps for applying design on the body.

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