Model Lamp

About this object

Narrative

Percy F. Broughton is thought to have collected this artifact while he served as a missionary with the Church Missionary Society, in Lake Harbour on Baffin Island, from 1911-1912.

Physical description

Model lamp carved out of stone, roughly oval to triangular in its top view. The object has a convex interior with a sharp crease along the bottom running from left to right. A thick upper rim is carved into one side of the lamp. The exterior bottom is rounded with a sharp ridge at middle.