Goggles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SNOW GOGGLES.---MADE OF LIGHT WOOD. NO VISOR. NOSE GROOVE ABOVE AND BELOW, MAKING THE APPARATUS REVERSIBLE. A SINGLE NARROW SLIT FOR THE TWO EYES. NO LASHINGS. LENGTH, 5 1/4 INCHES; WIDTH, 1 1/2 INCHES. ESKIMO OF NORTON BAY, ALASKA. 44,329. 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: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Norton Bay, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq, Malemiut
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 80A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E44329-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Goggles
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 13.34 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.8 cm