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Sticks used for poking fire or cooking
Object Number 14-5-10/85942
Display Title Sticks used for poking fire or cooking
Descriptions
Inventory Description Sticks, stripped twigs, worked ends, charred
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 80 x 2 x 1.5 cm (31 1/2 x 13/16 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Provenance
Expedition Samuel J. Guernsey (1914 - 1914)
Expedition Dr. Alfred Vincent Kidder (1914 - 1914)

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
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22-2-50/B3420 Fire sticks - not used now except in case of emergency
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Cameroon
"Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, with unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25269 "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, with unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, with unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25270 "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, with unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30429.1 [No folder title]: "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Gambling sticks. 48 sticks of wood w/ bark removed
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Game
Oklahoma
"Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right
2001.29.19298 "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30429 [No folder title]: "Old Xama" poking a fire with a stick, other unidentified people to the right (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Sticks for making fire
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Tools
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Tools
Utah
/Twikwe's possessions, including (top to bottom, left to right) a piece of wood hollowed in center used to trip iron traps, a small stick, a bundle of sharpened sticks used to peg down a hide to stretch it, a fire paddle, 2 sticks, a digging stick, a bow, arrow with a bone point shaped like a needle, and a quiver, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.20878 /Twikwe's possessions, including (top to bottom, left to right) a piece of wood hollowed in center used to trip iron traps, a small stick, a bundle of sharpened sticks used to peg down a hide to stretch it, a fire paddle, 2 sticks, a digging stick, a bow, arrow with a bone point shaped like a needle, and a quiver, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan
/Twikwe's possessions, including (top to bottom, left to right) a piece of wood hollowed in center used to trip iron traps, a small stick, a bundle of sharpened sticks used to peg down a hide to stretch it, a fire paddle, 2 sticks, a digging stick, a bow, arrow with a bone point shaped like a needle, and a quiver, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.27259 /Twikwe's possessions, including (top to bottom, left to right) a piece of wood hollowed in center used to trip iron traps, a small stick, a bundle of sharpened sticks used to peg down a hide to stretch it, a fire paddle, 2 sticks, a digging stick, a bow, arrow with a bone point shaped like a needle, and a quiver, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan