Firemaking set with ornamented cap

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Object Number 30-54-70/D3499

Display Title Firemaking set with ornamented cap

Descriptions

Inventory Description Fire drill, two wood sticks, fiber wrapping, ball of red seeds, tied with cordag

Classification

Tools

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Tiwi

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory / Bathurst Islands

Materials Wood , Pigment , Plant fiber cordage (leaf), Seed , Dye

Dimensions Overall: 197 x 5.5 x 5.4 cm (77 9/16 x 2 3/16 x 2 1/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object D-3499; 30-54-70/D3499

Provenance

Collector W. Lloyd Warner (1929-1930)

Seller W. Lloyd Warner (1930)

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2001.29.30464.1	"Firemaking": Man making a fire (print is a cropped image)		Okwa
39-17-70/1324	Fire-making set - 2 sticks bound together with fibre	Fire starter	Karon
2001.29.30463	"Firemaking": ≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" making a fire, with ≠Gao twirling the "male" stick in the notch of the "female" stick, steadying it with his digging stick and his foot (print is a cropped image)		Gautscha
50-46-10/37886	Basketry and seeds	Charred Floral Remain Seed Textile fragment	Site 616

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