Tin Can Lamp
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Sep 1966
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Lucile E. St. Hoyme
notes: label: Notes
content: OIL LAMP MADE FROM DISCARDED BEAN CAN ATOP WHICH IS SOLDERED LID WITH SPOUT FOR HOLDING WICK. LAMP BURNS KEROSENE USING RAG WICK AND CAN BE FOUND IN USE AMONG POORER JAMAICANS AND IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. THIS TYPE OF LAMP IS CALLED A "KITCHEN BITCH."
label: Notes
content: Per Sharifa Balfour, assistant curator, National Museum Jamaica, this type of lamp, known popularly as a "Kitchen Bitch", is also referred to as the cowgut, tilly lamp, and tinning lamp in some parishes. It is a three-tiered, shadeless lamp with a handle that is fueled by kerosene oil and a cloth wick. According to Olive Senior, the lamp may have gotten its name because even in homes with glass lamps, it was the lamp that was used in the kitchen, which in the old days, was always separate from the house. See: https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/art-leisure/20180506/celebration-jamaicas-heritage Senior, O. (2003). Encyclopaedia of Jamaican Heritage. Kingston, Jamaica: Twin Gunip Publishers. (May-July 1987). The Kitchen Bitch. Jamaica Journal, Vol. 20. (No. 2)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Jun 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Jamaica, Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Jamaican
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 268739
label: USNM Number
content: E405474-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lamp