{"id":3638,"date":"2015-12-16T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2015-12-16T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:46:06","slug":"eskimo-sun-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/eskimo-sun-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Eskimo sun glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3639\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-873.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3639\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-873-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alaska\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-873-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-873-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-873-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-873-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alaska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 These antique whale bone\/scrimshaw goggles came from the Aleutian Islands near Alaska.\u00a0 Would you have any idea the approximate age of these goggles?\u00a0 How valuable would these be?\u00a0 PJ, 873<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> Indigenous people in the extreme Northern parts of the world have always carved goggles out of wood or bone with thin slits for eye holes.\u00a0 <!--more-->These handmade devices function quite well in protecting the eyes from the bright sun rays reflecting off the white snow and ice. I show a pair from a different part of Alaska on page 92 of my new book, Masks of the World. (It is in the chapter titled &#8220;Native American,&#8221; but it could have been listed in a later chapter called &#8220;Protection &amp; Protest.&#8221;\u00a0 I am especially impressed by the handsome shape and simplified decoration utilized in your example.\u00a0 It is a wonderful little carving that would look great on the wearer&#8230; and on a collector&#8217;s wall. Sorry, we cannot do appraisals on this blog.\u00a0 <strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 These antique whale bone\/scrimshaw goggles came from the Aleutian Islands near Alaska.\u00a0 Would you have any idea the approximate age of these goggles?\u00a0 How valuable would these be?\u00a0 PJ, 873 A:\u00a0 Indigenous people in the extreme Northern parts of the world have always carved goggles out of wood or bone with thin slits for eye holes.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-native-america","category-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}