Flint and steel fire making apparatus: (a) steel - U-shaped (b) flint (c) oak galls (tinder) (d) fiber tinder (e) sack container of black velvet with white circles.
Donor:
Willard W. Hill
Collection place:
Fort Defiance, Apache County, Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Apache; Fort Defiance
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Willard W. Hill
Collection date:
1935
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Firemaking kits
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1936
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— length 7 centimeters and (e)— length 17.5 centimeters
Comment:
Published: 1971 Navaho Material Culture, Clyde Kluckhohn, W.W. Hill and Lucy Kluckhohn. pp. 167-168 with photo. Anthro E99 N3 K585.
Loans:
S1963-1964 #34: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (October 25, 1963–October 25, 1963), 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), S1967-1968 #79: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (January 18, 1968–January 18, 1968), S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968), and S1970-1971 #149: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (June 25, 1971–July 9, 1971)