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: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 27, 1962–Februrary 27, 1962), S1963-1964 #34: Department of 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: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 11, 1967–April 11, 1967), S1966-1967 #99: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 27, 1967–April 27, 1967), S1967-1968 #79: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (January 18, 1968–January 18, 1968), S1967-1968 #86: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 6, 1968–February 6, 1968), S1967-1968 #87: Department of 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: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (1978–October 14, 1980)