How do eskimos start a fire in the arctic?

Answer 1

Technology would have influenced the Eskimos by now, they are definitely modern applications being used to create fire. They would easily use gasoline, etc to generate fire. Whale oil for instance is an alternate flammable agent that they would use, rubbing two sticks together which would generate heat from the friction is still applicable though it would take longer.

Answer 2

The Eskimo after designing a couple of bones into a spring that sets itself off in a animal's stomach or intestines simply by wrapping a bent bone with the animal's favorite food and setting it near the animals {it opens after the food is digested} takes fat from his kill (as fuel) and takes a piece of ice skillfully shaped into a lens and lights the wick (made of twisted animal hair). In the months without sun he uses wood which he gathers during the sunny months. He splits a larger piece and uses a sturdy but smaller completely round piece to spin with his hands. The friction from that starts a fire which he then uses to light his oil bowl that has a wick in it.