Pair of Inuit Snow Goggles
Pair of Inuit Snow Goggles
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Pair of Inuit snow goggles, also called ilgaak or iggaak, Canada, the bone body engraved with a geometric patterned border, with an exaggerated nose bridge flanked by two slits. See a similar example at the Canadian Museum of History, object number IX-C:2846, and The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art.
Ex private Belgian collection.
Ex collection of a NATO officer, stationed in Canada around 1970.