Fire making kit

Museum number:
2-1590a-d
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21021590a@2dd
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Fire-making kit; a) hearth; b) drill; c) mouthpiece with lead bearing socket; d) drill cord: rawhide strip attached to 2 immature walrus tusks.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Northwest Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Firemaking kits
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
b)— length 35.5 centimeters, c)— width 12 centimeters, d)— 10 centimeters, and a)— length 26 centimeters
Comment:
References: Nelson, Eskimo About Bering Strait, p. 77-78 and fig. 21.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fire making kit, accession number 2-1590a-d, described as Fire-making kit; a) hearth; b) drill; c) mouthpiece with lead bearing socket; d) drill cord: rawhide strip attached to 2 immature walrus tusks.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fire making kit, accession number 2-1590a-d, described as Fire-making kit; a) hearth; b) drill; c) mouthpiece with lead bearing socket; d) drill cord: rawhide strip attached to 2 immature walrus tusks.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fire making kit, accession number 2-1590a-d, described as Fire-making kit; a) hearth; b) drill; c) mouthpiece with lead bearing socket; d) drill cord: rawhide strip attached to 2 immature walrus tusks.

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