Snow Goggles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Oct 1913
name: label: Collector
content: Riley D. Moore
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. National Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Bow shape with nose notch light admitted through 9 narrow horizontal slits."
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=327 , retrieved 7-31-2018; see web page for additional information: Snow goggles. "They have all kinds, all shapes ... Because of glare - the glare of the sun is pretty bad and mostly, even at white-out, these are very handy... When spring comes, the sun is very bright." - Estelle Oozevaseuk, 2001 This pair of St. Lawrence Island Yupik goggles has multiple slits like Venetian blinds, providing a broad field of view. Goggles protected the eyes from wind as well as light reflecting off snow, ice, and water. Goggles carved from walrus ivory have been found in Old Bering Sea archaeological sites nearly 2000 years old.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, St. Lawrence Island
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055962
label: USNM Number
content: E280226-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Goggles
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 30 cm