Lamp
- Museum number:
- 2-6807
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020006807
- Alternate number:
- x-3000 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Oil lamp of clay, saucer-shaped, yellow, inside under lip to floor are incised rows of alternating grooves and dots, floor of lamp has X (each "arm" of X has two strokes, small circle in middle of X) motif which is personal mark of owner.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Norton Sound to Bristol Bay, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Norton Sound to Bristol Bay
- 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:
- diameter 11 centimeters and height 4 centimeters
- Comment:
- References: W. Hough, The Lamp of the Eskimo, Pl. 19.
- Legacy documentation:
-