Fire-Drill Model 3 Parts
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Apr 1904
name: label: Donor Name
content: Department Of Anthropology
notes: label: Notes
content: Fire drill hearth model. Section of milled oak with two holes for drill. One wooden shaft. Chin rest and spindle missing. Manufactured in U.S. National Museum Museum Anthropology Lab, presumably for exhibit. 16.25" (41 cm). Records: Consisting of a chin rest, spindle, and hearth. The chin rest is of leather, the hearth has a channel for the dust which is drilled from the edge of a block into the bottom of the hole. (C). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 042559
label: USNM Number
content: E230131-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set Model