DCHP-3

Eskimo (oil) lamp

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shallow, crescent-shaped dish of soapstone in which seal-oil or caribou fat is burned to provide light and heat for cooking in an Eskimo home. See picture at kudlik.

See: kudlik

Quotations

1864
The Esquimaux lamp is the "all in all" to these people.
1938
The Eskimo oil lamp and the primus stoves were soon going and a meal well under way.