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Object Number 08-36-70/74174
Display Title Flint and steel fire making outfit
Descriptions
Inventory Description Fire starter, four pieces of flint and one steel fragment
Classification
  • Fire starter
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Ifugao
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Philippines / Luzon / Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Oceania / Philippines / Luzon / Eastern Lepanto
Materials Steel, Stone
Dimensions Overall: 3.2 x 2.9 x 0.5 cm (1 1/4 x 1 1/8 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 5
Label on object 74174

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