Lamp
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Isaac I. Hayes
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SOAPSTONE. FOUND AMONG EFFECTS OF DR. [EMIL] BESSELS." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "176064. STONE LAMP.-EXCAVATED FROM SOAPSTONE; THE WICK EDGE SLIGHTLY CURVED, THE BACK BOWED, FORMING A SHELL-SHAPED DISH. THE LAMP SEEMS TO SHOW TRACES OF HAVING BEEN WORKED WITH STONE TOOLS. THE REAR WALL IS NEARLY VERTICAL; THE RESERVOIR NEATLY HOLLOWED OUT, BEING DEEPEST IN THE MIDDLE, GENTLY SLOPING UP TO THE LIP AND TO THE REAR. A SHALLOW GROOVE HAS BEEN CUT ALONG THE INNER MARGIN OF THE LIP FOR CONVENIENCE IN INSTALLING THE WICK. THE STONE IS WORKED THIN AND RESEMBLES POTTERY. THE LAMP IS PROBABLY ONE USED IN SUMMER OR IN TRAVELING; IT IS WIDER THAN THE CUMBERLAND GULF TYPE. LENGTH, 7 INCHES; WIDTH, 4 1/2 INCHES; HEIGHT, 7/8 INCH. ESKIMO, SMITH SOUND. 176,064. COLLECTED BY DR. I. I. HAYES."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Smith Sound (Near), Northwest, Greenland
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E176064-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lamp
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 18 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 11.4 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 2.223 cm