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blubber 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  

  • 1855  (1892)  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.