Fire drill model
- Museum number:
- 1-7447a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21017447a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 1 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.177
- Description:
- 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)
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