hearth and drill from a fire-making set, composed of two tapering sticks, inserted into a cap decorated with abrus precatorius seeds. [AFS [OPS move] 3/12/2018]

Collection type: Object
Description: hearth and drill from a fire-making set, composed of two tapering sticks, inserted into a cap decorated with abrus precatorius seeds. [AFS [OPS move] 3/12/2018]
Long description: hearth and drill from a fire-making set, composed of two tapering sticks,inserted into a cap decorated with abrus precatorius seeds. The cap is made from two reed tubes, which have been joined together with wax, and bound with a piece of linen. The linen is also used to secure a single bone barb to one side of the cap. The cap ends in an expanding wax knob, set with abrus precatorius seeds, several of which have unattached. [AFS [OPS move] 3/12/2018]
Geographical reference: Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia; Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Indonesia
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Indonesia
Person: Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1901
Date collected: By 1901
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Reed Plant, Material Wax, Material Linen Flax Bast Fibre Textile Plant, Material Abrus Precatorius Seed Plant, Process Bound, Process Woven
Dimensions: Depth: max 26 mm, Width: max 38 mm, Length: max 1130 mm total, Length: max 1090 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.12.1 Other numbers: 692 a-c

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