tweezers
date: label: Date made
content: 1970
name: label: user
content: Hann, Catherine
notes: label: Description
content: Donor Catherine Hann (born Huynh bach Thuy) first purchased these tweezers in 1970, as a high school student in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). In 1975, however, Hann's father, who had worked in a South Vietnamese military hospital in Rach-Gia, was sent to a "re-education camp." Hann, who had become a high school biology teacher, and her husband decided to leave the country, but it took them two unsuccessful attempts before they finally escaped by fishing boat in 1981. After five months in n the United Nations refugee camp on Pulau Bidong, Malaysia, Hann, her husband, and her young son were finally able to join her husband's sister in Rockville, Maryland. Upon settling in the US, Hann worked various jobs, primarily electronics assembly, until finally becoming an esthetician. She used these tweezers for her personal grooming routine. Additional materials from Hann are held by the Archives Center (collection NMAH.AC.0921).
label: Description
content: Silver; round flat tips; each prong bulges out into narrow curve just below tips, then flattens and widens out slightly to faint embossed point on flat metal towards end; joined near end; curving out slightly and pointed at end.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
label: used
content: Viet Nam
label: used
content: Malaysia
label: used
content: United States
label: purchased
content: Viet Nam
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Clothing & Accessories
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Catherine Hann
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0120.004
label: accession number
content: 2006.0120
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0120.004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tweezers
label: Object Type
content: Accessories for the Care of the Person
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: tweezers
label: Object Type
content: Hair Care
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/16 in x 1/4 in x 1/4 in; 7.77875 cm x .635 cm x .635 cm