Lamp
- Museum number:
- 2-3973
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020003973
- Alternate number:
- x-119 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Oil lamp of soapstone, rectangular shape with flat smooth border and smooth sunken depression, slight indentation in center.
- 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 13.5 centimeters and height 3 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1961-1962 #84: Mt. Diablo Unified School District/William Gripp (June 21, 1962–July 27, 1962)
- Legacy documentation:
-