Fire drill hearth

Museum number:

2-4090

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21020004090

Alternate number:

x-236 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.167

Object count:

1

Description:

Block of wood used in making fire; 4 grooves for stick.

Donor:

Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections

Collection place:

Alaska

Verbatim coll. place:

Alaska

Culture or time period:

Alaskan Eskimo

Collector:

unknown

Collection date:

1898

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1904

Context of use:

to light tinder through friction between hard and soft wood.

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

width 31.5 centimeters

Loans:

S1961-1962 #46: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 27, 1962–Februrary 27, 1962), S1963-1964 #34: Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (October 25, 1963–October 25, 1963), S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), S1965-1966 #88: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #92: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 11, 1967–April 11, 1967), S1966-1967 #99: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 27, 1967–April 27, 1967), S1967-1968 #79: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (January 18, 1968–January 18, 1968), S1967-1968 #86: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 6, 1968–February 6, 1968), S1967-1968 #87: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968), S1970-1971 #149: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (June 25, 1971–July 9, 1971), and S1977-1978 #63: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (1978–October 14, 1980)

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