Tweezers For Extracting Hair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Dec 1887
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ferdinand Kampf
label: Collector
content: Dr. Charles Rau
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Charles Rau
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BRASS TWEEZERS HUNG TO A ROUND BEADED CORD. THIS SPECIMEN WAS PRESENTED BY PERRI PA HOU EE AN ARAPAHO CHIEF, TO DR. F. KAUFF [sic, should be Kampf] [Las] VEGAS, N.MEX. NOTE THE TENT DESIGN ON THE TWEEZERS."
label: Notes
content: "Tent design" consists of two triangles with crosses on top. Possibly could also represent a mission/church?
label: Notes
content: Original list in accession file identifies as "Brass tweezers for extracting the hair. Presented by Perri-Pa-hoo-ee, a Chief of the Arapahoes, to Dr. F. Kampf, at Las Vegas, New Mexico." Rau acquired the tweezers from Kampf. Dr. F. (Ferdinand) Kampf was a civilian astronomer on the Wheeler Survey, 1873 - 1878 (his last season in the field ended in 1877).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Las Vegas, San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arapaho (Inunaina, Hinono'ei)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019931
label: USNM Number
content: E178918-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tweezers