Wooden Visor For Snow Blink
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1866
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "EYE SHADE. MADE OF SPRUCE, CONSISTING OF A SIMPLE VISOR CARVED OUT OF A SINGLE PIECE. THE VISOR IS MOST COMMON IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM COLLECTION FROM SLEDGE ISLAND AND VICINITY. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1894; FIG. 29-C; P. 298."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: 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/118 , retrieved 12-17-2019: Visor made from a single piece of wood and with a strap made from sinew. The inner part of the visor, where it is meant to rest against the forehead, has a concave shape and the opposite edge has a similar convex curvature. The strap is attached to the visor through holes drilled at both ends. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/61: Visors were worn on the forehead to shield the wearer's eyes from the glare of the sun off snow or water.
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: 66A00090
label: USNM Number
content: E1651-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Visor