Stone Lamp
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1871
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LAMP OF SOAPSTONE, VERY LARGE AND WORKED OUT NEARLY, THE RESULT BEING A LAMP OF ELEGANT SHAPE., THE BOTTOM IS FLAT AND THE SIDES NEARLY VERTICAL. THE RESERVOIR IS NEARLY FLAT, AND SLOPES GRADUALLY UP TO THE WICK EDGE, WHILE THE REAR WALL IS HIGH. THE WICK EDGE CURVES MORE THAN IS USUAL IN THE ESKIMO LAMPS. THE LAMP HAS BEEN BROKEN AND REPAIRED SKILFULLY WITH SINEW AND PROBABLY CEMENT. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1896; PL. 5, FIG. 1; P. 1046." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "LAMP.--OF SOAPSTONE, VERY LARGE AND WORKED OUT NEATLY, THE RESULT BEING A LAMP OF ELEGANT SHAPE. THE BOTTOM IS FLAT AND THE SIDES NEARLY VERTICAL. THE RESERVOIR IS NEARLY FLAT, AND SLOPES GRADUALLY UP TO THE WICK EDGE, WHILE THE REAR WALL IS HIGH. THE WICK EDGE CURVES MORE THAN IS USUAL IN THE ESKIMO LAMPS. THE LAMP HAS BEEN BROKEN AND REPAIRED SKILFULLY WITH SINEW AND PROBABLY CEMENT. LENGTH, 26 1/2 INCHES; WIDTH, 13 1/2 INCHES; HEIGHT AT FRONT, 2 1/4 INCHES; AT BACK, 3 1/2 INCHES. ESKIMO REPULSE BAY. 10,439. COLLECTED BY CAPT. C. F. HALL."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Repulse Bay, Nunavut, Canada, 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: 002157
label: USNM Number
content: E10439-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lamp
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 67.3 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 34.3 cm
label: Height - At Front
content: 5.71 cm
label: Height - At Back
content: 8.9 cm