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On the side platforms are the lamps, drying rack, cooking pots and other cooking utensils. The usual form of lamp (quidleq) will be seen on fig. 87 (Aivilingmiut, Southampton Island). It is a large. half-moon. shaped bowl of soapstone, 78 cm long, 36 cm wide and about 4 cm deep; thickness 3–4 cm; the front edge is slightly curved, the rear edge very much so. A number of smaller lamps are of similar shape:

Aivilingmiut, length 46 cm, breadth 22 cm, depth 2.5 cm
Aivilingmiut length 35 cm, breadth 16 cm, depth 2 cm
Aivilingmiut length 34½ cm, breadth 14 cm, depth 3 cm
Aivilingmiut length 34 cm, breadth 19 cm, depth 4 cm
Aivilingmiut length 22½ cm, breadth 13 cm, depth 3 cm
Repulse Bay, length 69 cm, breadth 29 cm, depth 5 cm
Repulse Bay length 38 cm, breadth 19 cm, depth 2 cm
Itibdjeriang, length 36 cm, breadth 13 cm, depth 4 cm
Ingnertoq length 36 cm, breadth 15 cm, depth 3.3 cm
Kingâdjuaq length 21 cm, breadth 10 cm, depth 1.5 cm
Iglulik length 17 cm, breadth  8½ cm, depth 1.5 cm
Iglulik length 26 cm, breadth 12 cm, depth 2.7 cm
Ponds Inlet length 44 cm, breadth 19 cm, depth 3 cm

It will be seen that the proportions between length and breadth of most of the lamps are fairly constant, a little over 2; only in a Image missingFig. 88.Lamp with partition. few does it fall below 2, but never going below 1,7; on one it rises to 2,8.

Only two of the lamps differ in form from the others; they were both made by the same man and are quite new: Fig. 88 (Ingnertoq) has partitions which at the rear wall form three sections to hold blubber fibre and other incombustible matter. The other, from Kingâdjuaq, is a very small lamp having at the ends projecting blocks, 4 cm wide, 6 cm high, on which the cooking pot can stand. At Ponds Inlet, too, I saw a lamp with a longitudinal partition.

Most lamps are fairly flat; on some the front edge passes smoothly into the bottom, on others it appears as a distinct rim. Two lamps are very crude, up to 5 cm thick and have rounded corners; but most of them resemble Fig. 87 in being rather thin with angular corners. The front edge is oftenest slightly curved. although in a few cases nearly straight.

The type of lamp figured by Parry[1] is quite the same as that prevailing to-day. Boas[2] says that the lamps at Cumberland Gulf

  1. 1824, p. 160 and 548.
  2. 1901, p. 240.