- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Fire sticks. [FB 24/06/2015]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Khoe-San
- Person
- Field collector Christopher Powell-Cotton
- Field collector Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton
- PRM source Christopher Powell-Cotton
- PRM source Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1937
- Date collected
- January - September 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1949
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant
- Dimensions
- Length: max 333 mm approx
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1949.3.65.4 Other numbers: 195 Other PRM accession number: 1949.3.65d
Search terms: Fire, Fire Accessory
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