#AdventBotany Day 21: The qulliq brings light and heat to Canada’s Inuit Nunangat in the dark winter

6_Myna collecting plants_lighting qulliq

Figure 6: Top: Myna collecting suputit (arctic willow seedheads) and maniq (lamp moss), which she used to prepare the wick for her vegetable oil fuelled qulliq (Bottom)

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