Lamp
- Museum number:
- 2-3968
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020003968
- Alternate number:
- x-114 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Oil lamp of stone - very crude, almost rectangular, uneven in outline, irregular bottom, shallow depression.
- 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 24 centimeters, width 19 centimeters, and 4.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-