Lamp

Museum number:
5-7651
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
Law #15 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2445
Description:
lamp; ceramic; small shallow bowl, red in color with protruding spout; no evidence of burning in basin of the bowl H. 4.5 cm. D. 11 cm.
Donor:
LeRoy M. Law
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Southwest Nigeria; Yoruba attr.
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
LeRoy M. Law
Collection date:
ca. 1967
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Oil lamps
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1968
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
diameter 11 centimeters and height 4.5 centimeters
Comment:
File Code: 1.5 [crossed out on card]; [handwritten on card: 4.1]
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Lamp, accession number 5-7651, described as lamp; ceramic; small shallow bowl, red in color with protruding spout; no evidence of burning in basin of the bowl H. 4.5 cm. D. 11 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Lamp, accession number 5-7651, described as lamp; ceramic; small shallow bowl, red in color with protruding spout; no evidence of burning in basin of the bowl H. 4.5 cm. D. 11 cm.

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