Snow Goggles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jan 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Geological Survey
notes: 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, under number E153427A, http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=646, retrieved 8-23-2012: Snow goggles, Gwich'in Athabascan. Athabascan hunters and travelers used a variety of forest materials to make goggles and eye masks for protection against snow glare, including wood, birch bark, and bear skin. This pair of goggles was sewn from birch bark with a leather strap and a springy wooden bridge for the nose.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. 1 of 2 pairs of snow goggles, # E153427-0 is on loan; E153427-1 is not on loan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yukon River (Upper), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Athabascan (Athabaskan)
label: Culture
content: Kutchin (Gwich'in, Dihjii Zhuh) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025293
label: USNM Number
content: E153427-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Goggles
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 9.4 cm
label: Width
content: 3 cm
label: Height
content: 4.2 cm