Black cloth mask with orange ties inside bag with instruction sheet. Instruction sheet gives diffrent ways to sterilize mask. Mask is used in the Coronavirius / COVID-19 pandemic to prevent germs from spreading.
Especially early in the pandemic when masks were unavailable to buy in stores, people hand-made masks for themselves and friends and family. Most of these masks used ties instead of elastic because elastic was hard to find early in the pandemic. This mask was made by InventHQ (part of the Mamie Doud Eisenhower Library) and distributed to community members via book deliveries by the library.
Collection
Permanent Collection
Made/Created
Date made
2020
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Mask, Surgical
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Medical Accessories
Nomenclature Class
Medical & Psychological T&E
Nomenclature Category
Category 05: Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology