Large Eskimo Stone Lamp
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Nov 1877
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; P1. XXVIII-6; P. 74 ALSO IN USNM REPT, 1896; P1. 13, FIG. 3; P. 1050." FROM CARD: "STONE LAMP.---WORKED FROM TUFACEOUS ROCK; VERY MUCH DISINTEGRATED. SHAPE, THAT OF A SAD-IRON; BOTTOM FLAT, ROUNDING TOWARD VERTICAL SIDES. THE RESERVOIR IS OVAL AND SHALLOW; THE SIDES RISE TO UNIFORM HEIGHT ALL AROUND IT. THE POINT WHERE THE WICK HAS BEEN LAID IS NOT SPECIALLY WORKED FOR THE PURPOSE. THIS LAMP RESEMBLES SOME VARIETIES OF THE KADIAK LAMP, AND THE NARROW LIP INCREASES THE RESEMBLANCE. THERE ARE TWO LAMPS IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM FROM THE PENINSULA LYING BETWEEN NORTON AND KOTZEBUE SOUNDS FOR COMPARISON, WHICH SHOW THAT IT AFFILIATIONS ARE WITH THOSE OF KADIAK AND THE ALASKAN PENINSULA. LENGTH, 11 3/8 INCHES; GREATEST WIDTH, 6 1/2 INCHES; HEIGHT, 2 INCHES. ESKIMO, ST. MICHAELS, NORTON SOUND, ALASKA. 30,761. COLLECTED BY L. M. TURNER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 77A00075
label: USNM Number
content: E30761-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lamp
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 28.892 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 16.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 5 cm