Inuit art: Snow Goggles
Inuit Artist: Michael Martin
Size: 7" high, 5" wide
Community: Schefferville, QC 10/24
Stone: Caribou Antler
id: T-9980ejjy
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Even the Inuit experience snow blindness.
It is like a sunburn of your eyes caused by too much exposure to too much ultraviolet light.
Solution?
Wear sunglasses that block UV light.
Or, the solution for the Inuit was to carve glasses from caribou antler with only a horizontal slit to see through.
JEEPERS CREEPERS is an example of Inuit "sunglasses"
This significantly reduced the exposure of the eye to UV rays.
These carvings of "artifacts" of Inuit life tell a story about how these innovative people.
They have managed to live for thousands of years in an environment that would kill the average person in a few hours.
Amazing!
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