Fire sticks, drill & hearth inserted into a "cap". The two sticks are straight and roughly the same length, the ends are slightly rounded and split. The cap opening is bound with reed, then expands into a knob covered with Abrus precatorius seeds set into black coloured wax. There is a hole towards the rounded end of the cap. [AB [OPS Move] 10/7/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Fire sticks, drill & hearth inserted into a "cap". The two sticks are straight and roughly the same length, the ends are slightly rounded and split. The cap opening is bound with reed, then expands into a knob covered with Abrus precatorius seeds set into black coloured wax. There is a hole towards the rounded end of the cap. [AB [OPS Move] 10/7/2017]
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 Orchid Stem Plant, Material Abrus Precatorius Seed Plant, Process Bound, Process Carved
Dimensions: Depth: max 48 mm, Width: max 50 mm, Length: max 1195 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.13 Other numbers: 693 a-c