Lamp

Museum number:
2-3868
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Oil of lamp stone, oval, black, irregular bottom. Smoothly sunken on one side to central depression. The border is flattened and smooth. Made of basalt. Interior illumination, heat, cooking, melting snow, 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 20 centimeters and 6 centimeters
Loans:
S1977-1978 #52: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (May 8, 1978–July 7, 1978) and S1986-1987 #16: Stan Musilek (January 20, 1987–January 21, 1987)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lamp, accession number 2-3868, described as Oil of lamp stone, oval, black, irregular bottom. Smoothly sunken on one side to central depression. The border is flattened and smooth. Made of basalt. Interior illumination, heat, cooking, melting snow, drying clothes.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lamp, accession number 2-3868, described as Oil of lamp stone, oval, black, irregular bottom. Smoothly sunken on one side to central depression. The border is flattened and smooth. Made of basalt. Interior illumination, heat, cooking, melting snow, drying clothes.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lamp, accession number 2-3868, described as Oil of lamp stone, oval, black, irregular bottom. Smoothly sunken on one side to central depression. The border is flattened and smooth. Made of basalt. Interior illumination, heat, cooking, melting snow, drying clothes.

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