Snow-Goggles With Beads
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Sep 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SNOW GOGGLES.---MADE OF SPRUCE WOOD, PAINTED RED AND THE ENDS RUBBED WITH GRAPHITE. EYE PIECES SEPARATE, OVAL, AND CONCAVE. NARROW SLITS FOR VISION. ORNAMENTED WITH WHITE AND RED BEADS. LENGTH 7 1/4 INCHES; WIDTH, 2 INCHES. ESKIMO, ST. MICHAEL ISLAND, ALASKA. 24,339. COLLECTED BY L. M. TURNER. 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: 15 Mar 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Michael, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 76A00100
label: USNM Number
content: E24339-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Goggles
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 18.41 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5 cm