Fire-Making Apparatus Complete
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; P1. XXXIV-4,5; P. 86. ALSO IN USNM AR 1888; P1. 78, FIG. 36; P. 566 AND AR 1890, FIG. 52, P. 397; AND PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 73, ART. 14; FIG. 32; P. 45. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, P1.83, P.56. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990."
label: Notes
content: From transcript of consultations held in conjunction with "Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live)" exhibit, April 17-18, 2010: "This item here is what we call kenngessuuin, fire maker... It would be handled by two people. And what happened was they'd be across each other and they'd pull against each other and make this twist and then when it gets hot enough pieces of dry wood that they put in here gets hot enough and it catches on fire and then that is dumped on other small pieces of wood and then fire is created and they put more smaller wood and eventually they put on larger wood when the fire starts going. So this is called kenngessuuin." "When they make these things they make them in replica, usually of animals that they prize, that they hunt and use. This is seal." "They were using these into 1930s...And maybe beyond that, they still used these for making fire."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Chalitmut, Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E36325-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set