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.
Corpus
Ethnography of America
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