Barber’s chair

A barber’s chair of wood and metal with hydraulic lift and padded leather seat. It was used at Eugene Laflamme’s barber shop at the Con Mine recreation hall from 1948 to 1959, and then at Woody Woodrow’s barber shop in downtown Yellowknife from 1961 to 1972.
Accession No.
974.008.001
Maker
Koken Barber Supply Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Culture
Non-Indigenous
Region
North Slave
Location
Great Slave Lake, Yellowknife
Date
c. 1909
Barber’s chair