- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Forked wooden stand to be used to support a lamp of shell, RUTTUREP, [1900.78.9] for fish oil and bark wick. The stand is a tall wooden stick which has been split at the top to accommodate the saucer-shaped shell lamp. [MOBB [OPS move] 27/6/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Ainu アイヌ
- Person
- Field collector J. Rousseau
- Field collector Julien Jean Marie Rousseau
- PRM source J. Rousseau
- PRM source Julien Jean Marie Rousseau
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1900
- Date collected
- By 1900
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1900
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Split, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Height: max 840 mm, Length: max 84 mm, Width: max 80 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1900.78.10 Other numbers: 4
- Research and responses
See entry for 1949.10.15 B -- 'The following 15 photographic negatives of lamps in the Pitt Rivers Museum taken for the use of Mrs Maude Rex Allen (nos in brackets Robins cat) - Japan Yezo Ainu Half plate negative lamp made of a bivalve shell on wooden stand coll Rousseau (F3)' [no costs given]. [GI 22/9/2000]
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