Fire-Stick Drill
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
label: Collection Date
content: 1875 to 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Stephen Powers
label: Donor Name
content: Stephen Powers
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM THE ACCESSION FILE, "LIST OF ARTICLES COLLECTED FROM THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA, IN 1875 AND 1876, BY STEPHEN POWERS": "19640, 'PAHIH,' A FIRE-STICK OF PINE, CONTAINING A NUMBER OF HOLES, IN WHICH A SECTION OF CANE FILLED WITH CHARCOAL DUST IS MADE TO REVOLVE RAPIDLY BY BEING ROLLED IN THE HANDS. THE CHARCOAL DUST IGNITES, SERVING AS TINDER. ON THE END OF THE FIRE-STICK IS A KNOB OR LUMP OF RED EARTH MIXED WITH PITCH, WHICH SERVES AS WAX FOR USE ABOUT THE HOUSEHOLD. ... PROVENIENCE NOTE: THE ABOVE IS ON THE PART OF THE LIST UNDER THE SUBHEADING OF "WASHOES, RENO, NEVADA." ... FROM CARD: THE BOARD HAS 8 CAVITIES AND GROOVES, EACH OF WHICH IS PROTECTED WITH A PIECE OF BUCKSKIN PASSED AROUND IT. THE MASS OF CEMENT ON ONE END MAY INDICATE THIS BELONGED TO AN ARROW-MAKER WHO USES THIS KIND OF MATERIAL. 27 INCHES LONG. ILLUSTRATED IN USNM AR, 1888; FIG. 6, P. 538; AND PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 73, ART. 14; FIG. 6; P. 14.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Washoe
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004856
label: USNM Number
content: E19640-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 69 cm