Fire-Making Set
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Nov 1893
name: label: Donor Name
content: William V. Brown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MARKED "A", "B" AND "C". FOUR STICKS EACH AND HEARTH TINDER OF FUNGUS. ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 73, ART. 14; PL. 4, FIG. 2; P. 72. FIRE-DRILL AND TINDER-DRILL STICKS OF WOOD HAVING A LARGE PITH; HEARTH, OF SOFT WOOD; TINDER, OF ROTTEN WOOD WRAPPED IN LEAVES. IN THIS FIRE-MAKING SET THE DRILL IS REVOLVED APPARENTLY UPON A PLAIN SURFACE WITHOUT CANAL. THE CAVITY CUT WITH THE PITHY STICK HAS A CORE IN THE CENTER. POSSIBLY THE FIRE IS COMMUNICATED TO THE PITH IN THE STICK."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 16
place: label: Place
content: New South Wales, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027456
label: USNM Number
content: E168116-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set