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 ...

We know Canadian far north Copper Inuit and Alaskan Yupik wore snow goggles of many kinds made of antlers or whalebone and with tiny horizontal slits. Wearers looked through these and they were ...

We know Canadian far north Copper Inuit and Alaskan Yupik wore snow goggles of many kinds made of antlers or whalebone and with tiny horizontal slits. Wearers looked through these and they were ...

The Copper Inuit and Alaskan Yupik from Canada's far north also wore snow goggles with tiny horizontal slits made from antlers or whalebones. These goggles protected them from the brilliant light ...

Today, however, most Inuit wear contemporary sunglasses with polarized lenses instead of traditional snow goggles. Kristina Killgrove is a staff writer at Live Science with a focus on archaeology ...

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 ...