Stone Lamp
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Sep 1883
name: label: Collector
content: Charles L. McKay
label: Donor Name
content: Charles L. McKay
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1896; PL. 20, FIG. 3; P. 1056." FROM CARD: "LAMP.---THIS LAMP IS OF HARD, CRYSTALLINE ROCK. IT HAS BEEN WORKED APPARENTLY FROM A BEACH PEBBLE BY PECKING. THE LOWER PORTION IS ROUNDED; THE LAMP, HOWEVER, IS STABLE AND HAS A SLIGHT INCLINATION TOWARD THE WICK EDGE. AROUND THE SIDE A WIDE GROOVE HAS BEEN WORKED, MAKING A DECIDED RIM. THE RESERVOIR IS SHALLOW AND PERFECTLY OVAL IN OUTLINE, WITH A FLAT EDGE WHICH HAS BEEN WORKED DOWN AT ONE APEX OF THE OVAL TO FORM A NARROW LIP FOR THE WICK. THE RESERVOIR AND EDGE HAVE BEEN ROUGHLY POLISHED. THE LAMP IS A VERY FINE SPECIMEN OF STONE WORKING; IT IS LIKE THE KADIAK LAMP IN THE LIP, BUT THE GENERAL APPEARANCE IS THAT OF THE POTTERY LAMPS OF THE BRISTOL BAY REGION. DIMENSIONS, 5 1/2 BY 4 1/2 INCHES; HEIGHT, 2 3/4 INCHES. ESKIMO, BRISTOL BAY, ALASKA. 56,024. COLLECTED BY C. L. MCKAY."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bristol Bay, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013527
label: USNM Number
content: E56024-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lamp
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 14 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 11.4 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 6.99 cm