[Bonetools] Fwd: Zahnbürsten

[griffitt at email.arizona.edu]

Hi
Bone-handled toothbrushes are reasonably common in North American historical-era
sites.  We have some in the site I'm working on now (a late 19th/early 20th c.
more-or-less middle-class, multi-ethnic residential neighborhood in Tucson,
Arizona), and I'm at this minute doing a bit of research trying to track down
information about them (and other late 19th early 20 c bone artifacts).

I'd be happy to pass along what I find to those of you who are interested, just
let me know!

Janet



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Janet Griffitts, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar
Dept. of Anthropology,
Tucson,Arizona

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Quoting h13017cho at helka.iif.hu:

> Dear brushy people,
>     I picked up two late nineteeth century bone and boar britsle
> tooth brushes
> in Lyon a few years ago. I can send pictures of them if you like. I do not
> know how common it was to use them although it must have been more of a
> middle and upper class kind of thing. Less wealthy people would have had
> more to worry about than good breath and shiny teeth. We need Marloes'
> opinion.
>
> Alice
>
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