The first time a woman noticed that she could make herself more attractive by arranging her hair in some special way was probably the first time a “comb” was used. A comb is simply any implement with “teeth” which go through hair, thereby arranging it.

There are people who live in New Guinea called Papuans. They have very crisp hair which grows in tight ringlets. Some people believe that in order to arrange these ringlets into a big mop at the top of the head, the Papuans must have invented the comb.