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FIRE STARTING KIT
Object Number 28-3-10/97158
Display Title FIRE STARTING KIT
Descriptions
Inventory Description Sticks, 5 bound with cotton string, one end rounded, other broken
Classification
  • Tool
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico / Grant County
Additional Geographic Terms Steamboat Canyon; Bear Creek, tributary to; Gila River Drainage
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 42 x 3.5 x 2.2 cm (16 9/16 x 1 3/8 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity 6
Label on object 97158
Provenance
Collector Cornelius Burton (Burt) Cosgrove Sr.
Collector Harriet S. Cosgrove
Expedition Peabody Museum Expedition

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FIRE STARTING KIT
28-3-10/96923 FIRE STARTING KIT
Worked Wood
Lone Mountain
Fire starting kit
27-11-10/96550 Fire starting kit
Worked Wood
Chavez Cave
Arrows, arrow poison: Quiver with contents laid out on a kaross, including arrow shafts without points, "male" and "female" fire-sticks, two drills, two long arrows with unbarbed points, an arrow-shaft, and six arrows with metal points (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30300 Arrows, arrow poison: Quiver with contents laid out on a kaross, including arrow shafts without points, "male" and "female" fire-sticks, two drills, two long arrows with unbarbed points, an arrow-shaft, and six arrows with metal points (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" (≠Gao's sister's husband) starting to make fire, showing pile of sticks ready for the fire
2001.29.14068 ≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" (≠Gao's sister's husband) starting to make fire, showing pile of sticks ready for the fire
Gautscha
≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" (≠Gao's sister's husband) starting to make fire, with ≠Gao twirling the "male" stick, and showing positions of the sticks (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25680 ≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" (≠Gao's sister's husband) starting to make fire, with ≠Gao twirling the "male" stick, and showing positions of the sticks (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Man squatting, starting a fire
2001.29.16282 Man squatting, starting a fire
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" (≠Gao's sister's husband) starting to make fire, with ≠Gao twirling the "male" stick, and showing positions of the sticks
2001.29.14070 ≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" (≠Gao's sister's husband) starting to make fire, with ≠Gao twirling the "male" stick, and showing positions of the sticks
Gautscha
Broken wooded socketed object. Catalog: “fire hearths, 7”.
28-3-10/96715.2 Broken wooded socketed object. Catalog: “fire hearths, 7”.
Tool
Ceremonial Cave
Hunting equipment: Quiver with contents laid out on a kaross, including arrow shafts without points, "male" and "female" fire-sticks, two drills, two long arrows with unbarbed points, an arrow-shaft, and six arrows with metal points (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30345 Hunting equipment: Quiver with contents laid out on a kaross, including arrow shafts without points, "male" and "female" fire-sticks, two drills, two long arrows with unbarbed points, an arrow-shaft, and six arrows with metal points (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Quiver with contents laid out on a kaross, including arrow shafts without points, "male" and "female" fire-sticks, two drills, two long arrows with unbarbed points, an arrow-shaft, and six arrows with metal points
2001.29.14761 Quiver with contents laid out on a kaross, including arrow shafts without points, "male" and "female" fire-sticks, two drills, two long arrows with unbarbed points, an arrow-shaft, and six arrows with metal points
Gautscha
Quiver with contents laid out on a kaross, including arrow shafts without points, "male" and "female" fire-sticks, two drills, two long arrows with unbarbed points, an arrow-shaft, and six arrows with metal points
2001.29.14760 Quiver with contents laid out on a kaross, including arrow shafts without points, "male" and "female" fire-sticks, two drills, two long arrows with unbarbed points, an arrow-shaft, and six arrows with metal points
Gautscha
Stick
47-63-30/5762 Stick
Tool
Peru