DCHP-2

seal lamp DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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  

  • 1951  . . . I made out the central feature of this snow igloo, the seal lamp. . . .