Fire Hearth Board
name: label: Discipline
content: Anthropology
label: Region
content: US Southwest (NM, AZ, UT, NV)
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Geologic Age
content: 20th century
label: Notes
content: This fire hearth board was created as a replica of those used by the Pueblo people of the Southwest United States. The wooden board is rectangular and has 11 blackened drill holes from use in starting fires (six on one side, five on the other). The backside of the hearth is flat with a blackened notch running across the board at roughly the midway point.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Dec 2023
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: Southwest, North America, United States
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO400525-DSP
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
physicalDescription: label: Is this real?
content: No, it's a replica.
label: Material
content: Wood