Snow Goggles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jan 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "GOGGLE AND EYE SHADE OF SKIN OF RINGED SEAL'S HEAD [sic, actually wolverine, not ringed seal] ILLUS. IN USNM AR? 1894; FIG. 29; P. 298. ILLUS.: HNDB. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 5, PG. 357, FIG. 11. EYESHADE. STRIP OF SEALSKIN [sic, actually wolverine, not sealskin] WITH SLITS CUT FOR THE EYES, & BLUE & RED BEADS STRUNG THRU THE NOSE HOLE, SECURED AROUND THE HEAD WITH TIES AT THE BACK. INVENTORIED 1977."
label: Notes
content: This object had been catalogued as made from the skin of a ringed seal's head, however, per Darrin P. Lunde, Collection Manager, NMNH Division of Mammals, this is actually wolverine, not ringed seal.
label: Notes
content: This object is listed, but not described or analyzed, in Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/259 , retrieved 2-10-2020. General information on snow goggles is here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/52: Snow goggles protect the eyes from bright sunlight reflected from snow and ice which can burn the retinas and result in snow blindness. Similar to squinting, the narrow horizontal slits in the snow goggles allow only a small amount of sunlight to reach the eyes but still allow the person wearing them to see.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 69A00012
label: USNM Number
content: E7733-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Goggles