LAMP

Object/Artifact

St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

LAMP

Entry/Object ID

143/5363

Description

SOAPSTONE SQUARE WITH STRAIGHT SIDES

Collection

ARCHAEOLOGY

Made/Created

Place

Continent

North America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Country

Canada

State/Province

Alaska

Culture/Tribe

Eskimo

Native American

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Lamp

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Lighting Devices

Nomenclature Class

Lighting Equipment

Nomenclature Category

Category 02: Furnishings

Dimensions

Height

3 in

Width

7-3/4 in

Length

5-3/4 in

Parts

Count

Material

SOAPSTONE

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Provenance

Notes

FROM JOE BERNARD, TO G.M.B. TO H.B.F. HLG LEDGER VOL. 1, p. 21B INVOICE 10/271917

Research Notes

Notes

This lamp was created from soapstone, a metamorphic rock. Soapstone has been used for hundreds of years by the Indigenous People of Alaska to create lamps, like the one seen here. The Inuit (who made and used this particular lamp) would use seal blubber as an oil to create light sources. This one here has holes on all four corners for rope to be thread through so that lamp could be hung