Pierced Lamp (Turkish)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Jan 1896
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Alice A. Azeez
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CHAINS AND BELLS. BRASS PERCES A J---- WITH FINE WORK; BAND OF FIGURES IN SILVER; BOWL SHAPE SUSPENDED WITH CHAINS PASSING THRU SMALL BELLS. FINE SPECIMEN. WITHIN, CAUGHT BY THE TOP RIM IS SUSPENDED A GLASS BOWL (THE ORIGINAL ONE IS MISSING FROM THIS SPECIMEN AND A MODERN AM. PYREX BOWL THAT HAPPENS TO BE THE RIGHT SIZE HAS BEEN SUBSTITUTED.) WHICH IS FILLED WITH WATER AND ON WHICH FLOATS A SMALL DISK WITH A WAX CANDLE. THIS IS TECHNICALLY KNOWN AS A FLOAT LAMP. ILLUS. IN BULLETIN 141, USNM, P1. 46, FIG. 2, P. 110. "
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Turkey (Türkiye), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Turkish
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 030209
label: USNM Number
content: E175590-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lamp