Snow Goggles, Wooden
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Nov 1878
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "32942-4. UNALEET I, GANK. MAHLEMUT E, DTHE, GANK. USED IN THE SPRING TO PREVENT SNOW BLINDING. NEG. 81-4283 #32942: MADE OF SPRUCE HIGHLY POLISHED AND WITH GREAT ECONOMY OF WOOD. THE VISOR PROJECTING ABOUT ONE-HALF INCH. ABOVE THE EYE THERE ARE TWO NOTCHES FOR VENTILATION. IN THE REAR THE EYE AND NOSE CAVITY ARE SEPARATE. STRINGS OF SINEW CORD. THIS IS A VERY DAINTY SPECIMEN. THERE IS ONE OTHER SPECIMEN FROM POINT BARROW COLLECTED BY CAPTAIN HERENDEEN THAT HAS CAVITIES ABOVE THE EYE SPACES FOR VENTILATION. NORTON SOUND AND ESPECIALLY ST. MICHAELS, BEING THE DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF THIS REGION, THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF SNOW GOGGLES. #24340: FROM EGOUK IN FRONT RESEMBLES THIS SPECIMEN; THE CAVITIES ARE MORE PRONOUNCED IN THE REAR AND THERE ARE NO SPACES FOR VENTILATION. #32948: HAS SEPARATE EYE AND NOSE CAVITIES, BUT IN FRONT HAS A FLAT VISOR AND THE EYE SLITS ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE FURTHER NORTH. LENGTH, 5 INCHES. #32942 - ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. LXIV-9; P. 166. ALSO IN USNM AR, 1894; FIG. 30; P. 299. 32942: LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL.40, P.31. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Jul 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Unalakleet, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Unalakleet
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 78A00080
label: USNM Number
content: E32942-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Goggles