Objects
Oil lamp
Oil lamp
Number
МАЭ № 868-1
Title
Oil lamp
Ethnicity
Kodiak Eskimos
Date
до 1845
Expedition
I.G. Voznesenskii's expedition
Collectors-person
Material
Dimensions
length 17.3 cm, width 14.5 cm, height 5.5 cm
Annotation
Oil lamps were used to light the inside of a dwelling. They filled the lamp with seal oil, placed a wick in it and lit it. If a person was really cold he could sit over the oil lamp, pull his parka over it, and get warm fast.
Publications
Available in Russian St. Petersburg
Corpus
Ethnography of America
Albums