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Items in category 'Goggles'

AAT classification: Objects facet & Furnishings and Equipment & Tools and Equipment & equipment & <equipment by context> & <equipment for personal use> & <equipment for personal use: vision> & goggles

There are 4 items in this category.

	Goggles, snow Record: N: 169 Goggles, for snow, wood. Kitaamiut (West Greenlanders) type. Made by Paulus Lövström, Illorsuit, Ubekendt Ejland, Uummannap kommunea (Uummannaq District), Kalaallit Nunaata Kitaa (West Greenland), 1939. Made from a single piece of wood carved with convex surface on exterior, concave on interior. V-shaped depression is made to accommodate the nose. Rectangular slit (37 mm long) is made for each eye. Convex depressions for the eyes are blacked on interior. Dehaired seal skin thong is tied with twisted string around groove at each side of goggles. Ends of string loop are tied to opposite ends of seal skin for attachment of goggles to wearer.
	Goggles, snow Record: N: 1031 Goggles, for snow, wood. Innu-Naskapi. Naini (Nain), Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada, 1933.
	Goggles, snow Record: Y: 72/18/57a-b Goggles, for snow, wood. Labrador Inuit. Northern Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada, late 18th century?. Collected 1909-1910.
	Goggles, snow Record: Z: 215 Goggles, for snow, wood. Labrador Inuit. Northern Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada,1780 ?