Snow-Blinkers
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SNOW GOGGLES.---MADE OF SPRUCE WOOD. THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS ARE A NARROW VISOR, A SINGLE ELLIPTICAL SLIT, FOR THE TWO EYES, A SMALL GROOVE FOR THE NOSE. FASTENED WITH RAWHIDE STRING. A RUDE [sic] SPECIMEN. LENGTH, 6 1/4 INCHES; WIDTH, 1 1/2 INCHES. ESKIMO, LOWER YUKON, ALASKA. 38,704. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON. WORN BY THE NATIVES TO PREVENT SNOW BLINDNESS AND OPHTHALMIA, WHICH ARE PRODUCED BY THE REFLECTION OF THE SUNLIGHT FROM THE MIST ARISING FROM THE MELTING OF SNOW."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Jun 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yukon River, Lower, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E38704-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Goggles
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 15.88 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.8 cm