Wooden snow goggles, with 2 eye slits

Made:
Arctic Ocean
Wooden snow goggles, with 2 eye slits

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Wooden snow goggles, with 2 eye slits, Inuit (originally described as 'Eskimo')

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A645439
Materials:
spruce and sinew, ? material
Measurements:
length 120 mm
height 19 mm
slits: length 40 mm
slits: height 1 mm
type:
snow goggles

Parts

1 glass slab, possibly used by Lister in his experiments in microbiology

1 glass slab

1 glass slab, possibly used by Lister in his experiments in microbiology

Measurements:
length 51 mm
width 40 mm
Materials:
glass
Object Number:
A645439/9999
type:
glass slabs