Lamp
- Museum number:
- 2-3969
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020003969
- Alternate number:
- x-115 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Oil lamp of basalt stone, suboval in outline with smooth sunken depression, smooth flat border, flat 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:
- length 12 centimeters and height 4 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1974-1975 #82: Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (April 21, 1975–December 19, 1975)
- Legacy documentation:
-