Snow Goggles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. LXIV-13; P. 166. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG. 15, P. 18. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads of Continents catalogue identifies as: "Snow Goggles, Bering Sea Eskimo. ... Snow goggles were used by travelers and hunters for protection against snow blindness, a painful and crippling inflammation of the retina. ... The ... goggles are carved in a zoomorphic representation that emphasizes masking and animal-human transformation, important concepts in Alaskan Yupik Eskimo culture."
label: Notes
content: Photo and description in Fienup-Riordan, Ann. 2007. Yuungnaqpiallerput, The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival. Seattle: University Of Washington Press, p. 132. Nigaugek Wooden Snow Goggles. W. 6 3/4 in., H. 2 in., D. 3 1/4 in.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=584 , retrieved 11-18-2021; see web page for additional information: Snow goggles, Yup'ik. These snow goggles are carved in the form of an animal mask, probably representing a fox. Arctic foxes have keen eyesight for hunting on the land and sea ice, a quality that the mask/goggles may have been intended to transfer to the person wearing them.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sabotnisky, Yukon River, Lower, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E48996-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Goggles
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19.3 cm