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Lamp-stool

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Accession no.: N: 185
Title: Lamp-stool
Description: Lamp-stool. Tunumiit (East Greenlanders). Tasiilaq (Ammassalik), Kalaallit Nunaata Tunua (East Greenland), 1930-1933.
Object type: Lamp-stool
Classified name:
Current cultural affiliation: Tunumiit
Former cultural affiliation: East Greenlanders
Cultural subgroup: ammassalimmiut
Current place name: Kalaallit Nunaata Tunu > Tasiilaq
Former place name: East Greenland > Ammassalik (Angmassalik)
Keyword(s): Lamps
Field collection:
Person: rymill
Organisation: baare
Place: Kalaallit Nunaata Tunu (East Greenland) > Tasiilaq (Ammassalik, Angmassalik)
Date: 1930
Number of items: 1
Full description:

Lamp-stool: Carved from a semi-circular piece of wood with flat base and concave interior. Surface is blackened and coated with oil. Three circular wooden legs are inserted into holes in base (one at each end, one on curved side). Remnants of paper on surface.

Dimensions: Image:
  • across legs) Length: 300mm
  • Width: 155mm; height: 170mm; diameter: ?mm; depth: ?mm