DCHP-3

blubber 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

1855
I carried in our blubber-lamp, food, and bedding. . . .
1952
From the snow they built warm houses, heating them with their primitive stone blubber lamps.