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seal-oil lamp

Arctic

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(and picture)

Quotations

1850

Along one side of the abode a sort of bed-place extended for its whole length, forming evidently the family couch; for on one end of it, with her head close to a large seal-oil lamp, was the sick woman.

1958

[Caption] The kettle for tea is heating over the kudlik or seal-oil lamp.

1967

. . . while clay abounds in the Arctic, there was . . . no heat other than the low flame of seal oil lamps.