Snow Goggles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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=557 , retrieved 12-16-2021; see web page for additional information: Snow goggles, Inupiaq. This pair of Norton Sound snow goggles is made from mountain sheep hooves that were softened in hot water, bent and cut into shape, and strung together with trade beads. Snow goggles were highly individual in style and made from many different materials.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Norton Sound, North, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E37619-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Goggles
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 12.5 cm