snow-spectacles;
model(?)
- Museum number
- Am1926,0313.6
- Description
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Copy (?) of snow-spectacles, made of wood. Semi-circular, with semi-circular notch for nose in centre. One sight slit (c. 1mm wide) through middle, above it brim protruding 1.1 cm. in centre from side to side. Small brim (protruding 1.1 cm. in centre) above the slit. Inside flat on edges, but then carved out triangularly towards the slit. Highly polished.
- Production date
- 1926 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 13.60 centimetres (end to end)
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Depth: 6.60 centimetres ("radius" through centre)
- Curator's comments
- Register entry: "Wooden arctic spectacles. Copy of Eskimo. L 5.4''. Found in the Admiralty Oct 1911."; sketch of object. Written on object in black ink: "Arctic spectacles [with "respirator" deleted], found in the Admiralty, October 1911."
[B.Pauksztat notes: Why should it be a copy, as stated in Register ?. Who made it ?, and for whom ? - the ethnic group/ maker might not be Iglulik, perhaps, as supposed by the maker of the original record on the basis of the Register's assertion that "The Eskimo specimen are from IGLOOLIK." (BP, 10/2000).
- Location
- On display (G1/fc21)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1991 24 Aug-22 Sep, Harlow Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1991 28 Sep-27 Oct, Bedford Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1991 2 Nov-1 Dec, Braintree Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1991 7 Dec-1992 5 Jan, Aylesbury Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1992 11 Jan-9 Feb, Chichester Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1992 21 Mar-19 Apr, Gosport Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1992 30 May-28 Jun, Newbury Museum, Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1926,0313.6