Lamp
- Museum number:
- 2-4554
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004554
- Alternate number:
- x-700 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Oil lamp of stone; teardrop shape; 3 encircling exterior bands below rim, all filled with vermilion red pigment; grey soapstone.
- 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, drying clothes, cooking, melting snow.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 19 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1967-1968 #25 [formerly I-54-B]: University of California, Riverside/John F. Goins (July 1, 1954–present)
- Legacy documentation:
-