Wooden snow goggles and case, Inuit, North America, 1801-190

Snow blindness is caused by sunlight reflecting off white snow and ice. This painful condition causes temporary loss of vision. The Inuit people in North America wore goggles to shield their eyes from such glare. These goggles are made from pine and rawhide. Slits in the rawhide eye pieces let the w...

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Published: 1801
Subjects:
snow blindness
snow goggles
inuit
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spelling ftwellcome:oai:wellcomeimages.org:record/L0058740 2023-05-15T16:54:13+02:00 Wooden snow goggles and case, Inuit, North America, 1801-190 made: 1801-1900 http://wellcomeimages.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?MIROPAC=L0058740 unknown http://wellcomeimages.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?MIROPAC=L0058740 L0058740 Science Museum A645437 Science Museum, London, Wellcome Images Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY L0058740 snow blindness snow goggles 1801 ftwellcome 2014-12-20T12:12:46Z Snow blindness is caused by sunlight reflecting off white snow and ice. This painful condition causes temporary loss of vision. The Inuit people in North America wore goggles to shield their eyes from such glare. These goggles are made from pine and rawhide. Slits in the rawhide eye pieces let the wearer see. They are kept in a wooden case decorated with hunting scenes. maker: Inuit people Place made: North America Other/Unknown Material inuit Wellcome Trust, London: Wellcome Images
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topic snow blindness
snow goggles
spellingShingle snow blindness
snow goggles
Wooden snow goggles and case, Inuit, North America, 1801-190
topic_facet snow blindness
snow goggles
description Snow blindness is caused by sunlight reflecting off white snow and ice. This painful condition causes temporary loss of vision. The Inuit people in North America wore goggles to shield their eyes from such glare. These goggles are made from pine and rawhide. Slits in the rawhide eye pieces let the wearer see. They are kept in a wooden case decorated with hunting scenes. maker: Inuit people Place made: North America
title Wooden snow goggles and case, Inuit, North America, 1801-190
title_short Wooden snow goggles and case, Inuit, North America, 1801-190
title_full Wooden snow goggles and case, Inuit, North America, 1801-190
title_fullStr Wooden snow goggles and case, Inuit, North America, 1801-190
title_full_unstemmed Wooden snow goggles and case, Inuit, North America, 1801-190
title_sort wooden snow goggles and case, inuit, north america, 1801-190
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