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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
  • Iron Age depilatory tweezers.
  • Bone comb, supposedly Neolithic, from Gullrum Swedeh
  • Iron Age toilet instruments including curettes.
  • Pomander with three toilet instruments attached. Silver. Includes toothpick and ear-scoop.
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    Conjectured female costume of early Bronze Age.

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    Conjectured male costume during Bronze Age.

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    Iron Age depilatory tweezers.

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    Toilet Instruments (Iron Age).

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    Neolithic clay stamps for applying design on the body.

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