Lamp

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Museum number:: 2-3857
Permalink:: ark:/21549/hm21020003857
Alternate number:: x-701 (original number)
Accession number:: Acc.167
Object count:: 1
Description:: Oil lamp made of basalt stone; oval-shaped with a flat bottom and a smoothly sunken depression. Used for interior illumination, heat, cooking, melting snow, and drying clothes.
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:: length 17.5 centimeters and height 6.5 centimeters
Loans:: S1986-1987 #16: Stan Musilek (January 20, 1987–January 21, 1987)