Lamp
- Museum number:
- 2-1290
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020001290
- Accession number:
- Acc.46
- Description:
- Oil lamp of soapstone, black, irregular shape, flat bottom.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Northwest Bering Sea
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Charles L. Hall
- Collection date:
- ca. 1895
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Oil lamps
- Accession date:
- August 12, 1902
- Context of use:
- Interior illumination, heat, cooking, melting snow, drying clothes.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 12.7 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-