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stone 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 (and picture)
- 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. . . .
- 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.