Stone Lamp
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Sep 1935
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ales F. Hrdlicka
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Ales F. Hrdlicka
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Intermediate layer. Seal (?) head with shallow, heart shaped depression & longitudinal groove in basin; vertical ridge at wick end. Illus. Hrdlicka, 1944, fig. 157, p. 276."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=494 , retrieved 8-31-2012: Oil lamp, [Prehistoric] Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag. Stone lamps were shaped from stone and filled with oil to light the interiors of traditional houses; the wicks were made of moss, sometimes mixed with cedar bark. A bear's head rises from the basin of this lamp, to be dramatically lit by the flame. The lamp is more than one thousand years old and was found in an archaeological site on Kodiak Island.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Island / Uyak Bay, Kodiak Quad / Kodiak Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 134107
label: USNM Number
content: A375349-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lamp
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 31.5 cm