Lamp

Museum number:
2-1383
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Oil lamp of baked clay, black, saucer-shaped, 4 parallel grooves incised inside below rim. Radiating design in center is probably ownership mark.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Norton Sound to Bristol Bay, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Norton Sound to Bristol Bay
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baked clay and baked clay objects (object genre)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Interior illumination, heat, cooking, melting snow, drying clothes.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 7 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: Ill. Neg. 15-4363. References: W.Hough, The Lamp of the Eskimo, Pl. 19.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lamp, accession number 2-1383, described as Oil lamp of baked clay, black, saucer-shaped, 4 parallel grooves incised inside below rim. Radiating design in center is probably ownership mark.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lamp, accession number 2-1383, described as Oil lamp of baked clay, black, saucer-shaped, 4 parallel grooves incised inside below rim. Radiating design in center is probably ownership mark.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lamp, accession number 2-1383, described as Oil lamp of baked clay, black, saucer-shaped, 4 parallel grooves incised inside below rim. Radiating design in center is probably ownership mark.

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