Large triangular stone lamp used to light and heat sleeping rooms.
Collection place:
Cape Chaplin, Siberia, Russia
Verbatim coll. place:
Indian Point, Siberia, 40 m north of St. Lawrence Island
Culture or time period:
Siberian Yupik Eskimo
Collection date:
1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Oil lamps
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 14 inches and width 11 inches
Comment:
This object record was created because location data had been entered into the PHOEBE database without a corresponding object record. (J. Meehan 6/2003)