Three examples of snow goggle technology from the National Museum of the American Indian. Top, Inuit goggles from 2002, made of caribou bone and hide, Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. Middle ...

In one video shared to Instagram, Allen explained what traditional Inuit snow goggles are, captioning her post, "Did you know Inuit were the first to invent sunglasses?" View this post on Instagram A ...

A pair of traditional Inuit snow goggles, one of the thousands of items that make up the Nunavut Collection. A knife mostly likely carved out of stone and bone. A pair of infant kamiit ...

Today, however, most Inuit wear contemporary sunglasses with polarized lenses instead of traditional snow goggles. This article may contain affiliate links that Microsoft and/or the publisher may ...

Snow goggles were invented by the Inuit and Yupik Indians, Arctic native people who lived in modern day Alaska. DeGennaro told CNN the goggles were often carved from driftwood, whale bones ...

Did you know that goggles and sunglasses are not the same? Though it may not seem obvious, the two have completely different origins and purposes. While sunglasses are tinted glasses that protect ...

It’s taken centuries for this humble accessory to morph from Inuit snow goggles to medieval Chinese quartz lenses to 18th-century tinted glasses to today’s sunnies. Innovations like UV ...

For decades Inuit — who of course ... of the lived experience and traditional knowledge of the Inuit. Fox is a senior research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the ...