Lamp

Museum number:
2-3972
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020003972
Alternate number:
x-118 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Oil lamp of basalt stone, oval with flat smooth border and smooth sunken depression, rounded bottom.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Oil lamps
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Interior illumination, heat, cooking, melting snow, drying clothes.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 12.5 centimeters, height 6 centimeters, and length 16 centimeters
Loans:
S1983-1984 #14: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Anderson (Hupa) (September 19, 1983–September 26, 1983)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lamp, accession number 2-3972, described as Oil lamp of basalt stone, oval with flat smooth border and smooth sunken depression, rounded bottom.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lamp, accession number 2-3972, described as Oil lamp of basalt stone, oval with flat smooth border and smooth sunken depression, rounded bottom.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lamp, accession number 2-3972, described as Oil lamp of basalt stone, oval with flat smooth border and smooth sunken depression, rounded bottom.

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