An example of sculpted snow protection glasses in ivory de Morsa
Thule’s snow glasses are a protection for the ivory -backed eyes of vain, which helped survive the low temperatures of the Arctic. They originate from Canada and have been created about 1000 years ago.
Os thule snow glassesmanufactured, as its name suggests, by the Thule people who lived in Alaska and northern Canada between 800 and 1600, are a very old example of an accessory used to protect the eyes from snow and from the Arctic.
These glasses arouse attention because they are very similar to the scarf used by the famous cartoons Ninja turtles.
By its shape and more specifically for its color, the thule snow glasses that are on display at New York, remind the character Michelangelo.
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Ninja turtles
Carved into ivory dee de ivory, as it refers to, the glasses were manufactured somewhere between 800 and 1200 years. Measure 12.7 centimeters wide and 2.9 cm high, and may have had strips to fix them To someone’s face – as with ninja turtles.
This copy now presented by the Nova Yorchine Museum was collected around 1930 by an agent of the Royal Police Mounted from Canada in the north of Baffin Island, in the territory of Nunavut.
The fact that they have been found throughout the Arctic suggests that they are highly effective eye protection.
Glasses drawn to the millimeter
The glasses Iggaak – as they are known in the Inukttut language – were designed to the Pormenor. Yours wide and narrow ocular slits They served to protect the user from the ocular globe solar burns as well as the blowing ice and snow, while allowing a wide field of vision.
This concrete copy is decorated with double line prints, spikes and Y shapes, which were probably important to the user.
According to the Northern Museum of the University of Alaska, quoted by Live Science, the people Thule – Considered the ancestor of the modern invents – perfected several adaptations to the Arcticsuch as the creation of snow houses or iglus, the hunting of marine mammals, the use of dogs to pull sled.
In addition, the thule They were experts in sewing; They used animal skins to make tents and clothing.
Os Iggaak They are considered one of the first forms of protective glasses in the world. Currently, however, the Most of the innights wears sunglasses contemporaries with polarized lenses instead of traditional snow glasses. Ninja turtles are no longer before.
