Fire-making kit; a) hearth, wood, flat, with 12 starting holes at edge of one surface; pointed ends; L 57.2 cm X W 3.1 cm b) drill, wood, round; L 66.3 cm X Diameter 1.4 cm
Donor:
Charles Atwood Kofoid, D. L. Spencer, Miss Faurote, and William A. Setchell
Collection place:
Butte County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Butte
Culture or time period:
Maidu
Collector:
D. L. Spencer
Collection date:
1904
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1905
Context of use:
Demonstration model.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Made by the Indians at the direction of D. L. Spencer per arrangement of Alfred L. Kroeber with R. B. Dixon.
Loans:
S1967-1968 #149: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology/Albert B. Elsasser (June 24, 1968–June 24, 1968) and S1970-1971 #56: California State University, Chico (November 24, 1970–October 18, 1973)