- Date
- 1968 – 1975
- Material
- wood; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0244
- Description
- Wooden goggles cut from a single piece of wood, held to the head by a leather strap connected at the extremities. The wood is soft and light, and cut so the top round cradles the forehead and the bottom cutout sits on the arch of the nose. The major slit cutout is in front of the eyes and presents …
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- Title
- Sun Goggles
- Date
- 1968 – 1975
- Material
- wood; skin
- Dimensions
- 3.8 x 6.0 x 17.3 cm
- Description
- Wooden goggles cut from a single piece of wood, held to the head by a leather strap connected at the extremities. The wood is soft and light, and cut so the top round cradles the forehead and the bottom cutout sits on the arch of the nose. The major slit cutout is in front of the eyes and presents a chambered, slit view of the world.
- Subject
- households
- winter
- Inuit
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0244
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