Lamp
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Jul 1894
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Gustav F. Holm
label: Donor Name
content: Royal Museum Of Northern Antiquities (later the National Museum of Denmark)
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1896; PL. 8, FIG. 3; P. 1048." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "LAMP.-OF SOAPSTONE, OVATE IN OUTLINE; RESERVOIR SLANTS REGULARLY FROM WICK EDGE TO THE BOTTOM OF LOW, BACK WALL; THE CONVEX WICK EDGE HAS A RIDGE RUNNING AROUND IT BETWEEN THE OUTER EDGE AND THE RESERVOIR, FORMING A GROOVE IN WHICH THE WICK WAS INSTALLED. THE LAMP RESTS UPON A FLAT BOTTOM AND STANDS LEVEL, THE RIM OF THE BACK WALL BEING OF THE SAME HEIGHT AS THE WICK EDGE. LENGTH, 8 INCHES; WIDTH, 5 INCHES; HEIGHT, 2 1/4 INCHES. ESKIMO, EAST GREENLAND. 168,942. COLLECTED BY CAPT. G. HOLM. ROYAL MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ANTIQUITIES, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: East, Greenland
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, East Greenland Inuit / Tunumiit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028353
label: USNM Number
content: E168942-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lamp
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 5.71 cm