flat stones lie underneath and other stones are placed round three sides of them.
The Pâdlimiut, Harvaqtôrmiut and Qaernermiut, with the exception of a few families who are directly connected with the Aivilik tribe, use caribou fat for lighting, more rarely caribou marrow Image missingFig. 20.Pâdlimio woman carrying a load of heather for fuel. Hikoligjuaq. or fish oil, and of late years occasionally the Hudson's Bay Company's lard.
The fat is not pounded like seal blubber before use; but as a rule it is rendered down first and in a fluid state poured into bags of bird or caribou skin for keeping. Although I have no definite information on the point, I presume that musk-ox and caribou paunches are also used in the same manner, as the Netsilik tribes do. When the fat is to be lighted, the woman takes a little wick-moss [manᴇq] and rolls it; it is then called [ipᴇrᴀq]. This is shaped like a small cone [napajɔq], which is lighted, after which a little fat is held over it so that a few melted drops drip down over the cone and saturate the moss. A piece of fat is then placed alongside the cone so that the fuel gradually melts of itself and is absorbed. Wick-moss is kept in small bags.
The fat is often merely placed on a flat stone which is quite unworked and barely deserves the name of lamp. In some cases, however, a proper little saucer-shaped lamp [qudlᴇq] of soapstone is made. A lamp of this kind (P 28: 125; fig. 21 b), from the Pâdlimiut
