Strike-A-Light, Fire Bag, Flint Steel & C Of Bark
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 May 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Benjamin S. Lyman
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1888; PL. 81, FIG. 57; P. 584; ALSO IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL. 73, ART. 14; FIG. 54; P.68. APPARENTLY PURCHASED IN YOKOHAMA, JAPAN." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "STRIKE-A-LIGHT.---FLINT, STEEL, TINDER-BOXES, SLOW MATCH, AND RUSH POUCH IN WHICH THESE ARTICLES ARE KEPT. THE SLOW MATCH IS DRY ROOT OF THE ULMUS CAMPESTRIS, FORMERLY USED FOR THE FIRE DRILL. AINOS OF YEZO, JAPAN. 22,257. COLLECTED BY B.S. LYMAN. TO STRIKE A LIGHT THE AINO TAKES OUT THE CORK OF THE BOX WITH THE STEEL ATTACHED AND STIRS UP THE TINDER WITH THE SHARP POINT. HE THEN HOLDS UP THE FLINT IN HIS HAND OVER THE BOX AND STRIKES A SPARK DOWN INTO IT. THE COAL IS THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE PIPE OR MATERIAL FOR MAKING FIRE WITH THE BROAD END OF THE STEEL. THE POUCH IS OF TWINED WEAVING."
label: Notes
content: As of 2003, there are two sets of flint, steel, and tinder bag numbered #22257. It is probable that one of the two sets actually belongs with skin pouch cat. #22258.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Not Given / Yokohama (purchased here), Hokkaido (Yezo) / Honshu, Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005204
label: USNM Number
content: E22257-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set