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Eskimo (oil) lamp

• 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 also: kudlik  

  • 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.