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Object Number:32-8-120
Current Location: Native American Voices
Currently On Display
Culture:Prehistoric Eskimo
Provenience: United States of America
Alaska
Yukon Island
Fox Farm
Culture Area: Subarctic Culture Area
Locus: 4' 6"
Period: Kachemak Bay Culture III
Section:American
Materials:Stone
Height: 8 Measurement Unit Not Provided
Length: 21 Measurement Unit Not Provided
Width: 19 Measurement Unit Not Provided
Depth: 2.5 Measurement Unit Not Provided
Credit Line:Alaskan Expedition, Frederica de Laguna, 1932

Description

Ceremonial lamp with human figure.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Arctic Art (06 Dec 1957 - 30 Mar 1958) View Objects in Exhibition
Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition
Penn in the World: Twelve Decades at the University of Pennsylvania Museum (08 May 2008 - 28 Sep 2008) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Preucel, Robert W., and Wierzbowski, William S., and Williams, Lucy F. 2005. Native American Voices on Identity, Art and Culture: Objects of Everlasting Esteem.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Pages 178-179/Plate 72View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] 1957. Arctic Art.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pg 3, #55View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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