Lamp Used In "Feast Of Lights"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 May 1895
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. U B. White
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CE-MEE-GWE" OIL FIRE CUP,-KEROSENE OIL CUP USED FOR LIGHTING DURING "THADINGYUT" OR THE "LIGHT FESTIVAL" WHICH IS HELD DURING THE MONTH OF THADINGYUT OR OCTOBER. USUALLY LIGHTED ON THE PLATFORMS OF PAGODAS WITH THOUSANDS OF THEM. SOME KEROSENE IS POURED INTO THE CUP AND A LOOSELY SPUN COTTON WICK OR A SPECIAL TYPE OF WHITE CORK OBTAINED FROM SOME WATER CREEPERS IS PUT IN THE KEROSENE AND LIGHTED. THESE CUPS ARE USUALLY TO FORM WORDS OR PATTERNS. GROUPS OF YOUNG GIRLS GO UP TO THE PAGODAS DURING THE LIGHTED FESTIVAL AND LIGHT THEM UP."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Burma (Myanmar), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029407
label: USNM Number
content: E175201-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Lamp