DCHP-3

seal 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

1951
. . . I made out the central feature of this snow igloo, the seal lamp. . . .