Ancient Cultures
Customs and Traditions
Trace and Rise of Barber-Surgeons
Barber Pole
Barbering's Organizations and State Boards
Timeline
100
Who is credited with being the first people to cultivate beauty in an extravagant fashion?
Egyptians
100
What is a tonsure?
A shaved patch on the crown of the head.
100
What year did barber-surgeons form their first organization in France?
1096 AD
100
The pole is thought to symbolize what?
The staff that the patient would hold tightly in order for the veins in arm to stand out during bloodletting.
100
First state to pass barber licensing laws.
Minnesota
100
When did the earliest known scissors appear in Middle East?
3000-2000 BC
200
What was the first coloring agent first recorded in 1500 B.C.?
Henna
200
Flint-bladed razors found in Egyptian pyramids were used by the ruling class for?
Shaving the head and face.
200
Barbers also practiced in?
Bloodletting, minor surgery, herbal remedies, and tooth pulling.
200
What does the red represents?
The blood
200
Who adopted barber code of ethics?
AMBBA
Associated Master Barbers and Beauticians of America
200
What year and location was the first American barber school opened?
1893, Chicago, Illinois
300
Who was the egyptian barber commemorated with a statue?
Meryma'at
300
In early times, most groups considered the beard to be a sign of?
Wisdom, strength or manhood.
300
Who was credited with bringing barbering and shaving to Rome in 296 BC?
Ticinius Mena
300
What does the blue represents?
The veins
300
The NABBA standardizes the operation of barber schools and stands for?
National Association of Barber Boards of America.
300
Who established the first barber school in Chicago, Illinois?
A.B. Moler
400
Barba is the Latin word for?
Beard
400
Who was the leader of the Macedonian troops and ordered his soldiers to shave so their beards could not be seized in battle?
Alexander the Great
400
What period did wigs become very fashionable?
1700s-1800s
400
What does the white represent?
The Bandages
400
Employer groups are known as?
Master Barber Groups
400
In 1919 who invented the first practical electric hair clippers?
Leo J Wahl
500
What word comes from the Latin tondere, meaning "to shear"?
Tonsorial
500
Dentistry was performed only by barbers, and were also known as?
Barber-Surgeons
500
What year did barbers and surgeons separate in England?
1745
500
What does the bottom end-cap of modern barber poles represent?
The basin that was used as a vessel to catch the blood during bloodletting.
500
Journeymen barbers are also knows as?
Employee groups
500
In what year did John Oster market a hand-driven hair clipper for women's hair?
1924