Seal Skin Bag For Tinder
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1871
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 74, FIG. 23; P. 556 ALSO IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 73, ART. 14; FIG. 20, P. 35. INVENTORIED 1977." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "MOSS IN A LEATHERN CASE.--USED TO CATCH THE SPARK STRUCK FROM PYRITES. DIAMETER, 4 INCHES. IGLULIK. 10,191. COLLECTED BY CAPT. C. F. HALL. CAPTAIN PARRY SAYS: "FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING FIRE, THE ESKIMO USE TWO LUMPS OF COMMON PYRITES, FROM WHICH SPARKS ARE STRUCK INTO A LITTLE LEATHERN CASE CONTAINING MOSS WELL DRIED AND RUBBED BETWEEN THE HANDS." PARRY, SECOND VOYAGE, P. 504."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Igloolik Island, Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002157
label: USNM Number
content: E10191-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tinder Bag / Tinder
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 10 cm