DCHP-3

stone lamp

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

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

1938
From a frame of willow sticks arising from another snow platform are suspended the stone cooking pots, beneath which a tray-shaped kudlik, or stone lamp, is placed.
1958
Umiak and kayak have already disappeared from most regions, snow hut and stone lamp seem likely to follow in their wake. . . .