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DOC-CANADA

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Does anybody have any information on kudliks? Such as why the wick is so long? How long is it? How is the fat prepared? etc.

Thanks
Doc
 
mewolf1 said:
google is your friend:D


http://images.google.com/images?hl=...um=0&q=arctic cotton&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wi
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Thanks, wolf. :thumbup:

Regarding Google.
If we googled everything we would have little to discuss and no questions would ever be asked without the reply being "Google it".
Sometimes obvious questions are simply a way to get a discussion started.

All those pretty pictures and I still don't know what it is. :D

Oh look, it's really cotton grass!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriophorum

I wonder what the use it for?
 
mete said:
www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-kudlik.htm Check the photo you can add as much wicking material as you need ,it's not just a 'candle'
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mete: Interestingly, I had checked that site before I posted. In fact, I saved a couple of pictures of a kudlik from there. I have seen some video of Inuu (plural form?) using a kudlik and one of the things I noticed is that once in a while, a person 'dabs' along the length of the wick and I was curious what the purpose was - apparently it's to get more light. Also, do they render the fat before they use it in the lamp?

Quote - SkunkWerX: Regarding Google.
If we googled everything we would have little to discuss and no questions would ever be asked without the reply being "Google it".
Sometimes obvious questions are simply a way to get a discussion started.
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That is a good point, Skunk, also, however, you can find people that have first hand experience and can add to whatever information is available on the net. And, of course, as we have seen with recent tragic events, sometimes information on the net can be incomplete to the point of being dangerous.

Thanks all, for your responses.

Doc
 
mewolf1 said:
There is a film I came across a while back titled "The fast runner". Not a survival movie, but if you like the Inuit culture this film is outstanding. One of the scenes shows a woman tending the "lamp". Ive paused it and gone through the scene frame by frame a few times.
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I also saw the Fast Runner. Quite a different movie. Did you learn anything from reviewing those frames?

As far as, "if you like the Inuit culture", I do, in fact, I like all Aboriginal cultures. Our 'survival' tools, are their 'everyday living' tools.

Doc
 
Unfortunately I don't have personal experience but obviuosly they have multiple use for it depending on how much wick they use. For an interesting look at Inuit life try to find a copy of the movie "White Dawn". Haven't seen it for along time ,Warren Oates was in it.
 
DOC-CANADA said:
I also saw the Fast Runner. Quite a different movie. Did you learn anything from reviewing those frames?
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Ya I did learn some things about how to adjust the fire and the tool to do it with. I'd like to see one in person so I can get a better idea of its shape i.e. Is it lower in the middle or is it flat...etc.


As far as, "if you like the Inuit culture", I do, in fact, I like all Aboriginal cultures. Our 'survival' tools, are their 'everyday living' tools.

Doc
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Been that way for me too, all my life.
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I lived 9 years in Nunavut and bought my sister a soap stone Kudlik for my sister along with some arctic cotton wicking material. Cooking oil works great. The whole length of the wick burns putting out a useful amount of heat and light.

The tool is used to adjust the wick and keep it burning efficiently. Seal blubber is very oily and when heated up a bit will liquify nicely.

Down but Not Out the Canadian survival manual has directions regarding making one from metal.
 
Skunk, Google IS our friend! But we just couldn't have the same kind of fun if we did that first! Where would Kevin be? And by the way, where is Kevin, haven't heard from him in about a week?!?!
 
North61 said:
I lived 9 years in Nunavut and bought my sister a soap stone Kudlik for my sister along with some arctic cotton wicking material. Cooking oil works great. The whole length of the wick burns putting out a useful amount of heat and light.

The tool is used to adjust the wick and keep it burning efficiently. Seal blubber is very oily and when heated up a bit will liquify nicely.

Down but Not Out the Canadian survival manual has directions regarding making one from metal.
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I used to have 'Down But Not Out' but not any more. That's what you get when you loan out books. I don't do it anymore. I also had to buy Larry Dean Olsen's book twice because of that. :(

So the wick is immersed horizontally in the oil and different sections pushed under the oil surface to get more oil to the wick at that point? Or what do you mean by 'keep it burning efficiently"?

Doc
 
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