Tinder box lid, part of a fire making set. [MJD (Verve) 5/9/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Tinder box lid, part of a fire making set. [MJD (Verve) 5/9/2017]
Long description: Tinder box lid, part of a fire making set. The set contains a tinder box lid [.1], tinder box base [.2] with tinder inside, steel [.3] and flint [.4]. The box is made of bamboo and has some tinder in the base. The surface of the box is cross hatched with lines. [MJD (Verve) 5/9/2017]
Geographical reference: Myanmar (Burma)
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma); Northern Shan State
Cultural groups: Singpho
Person: Field collector Henry George Ashworth Leveson; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: 1800-1898
Date collected: By 1898
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Bamboo Plant, Material Fungus Plant, Process Carved, Process Incised
Dimensions: Diameter: max 29 mm, Length: max 74 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.689.1 Other numbers: 1371 a-d
Research and responses: HGA Leveson is listed as "Officers in the Burma Commission" under "Deputy Commissioners, 3rd Grade" in The India List and India Office List for 1905 (p. 69) [Dan Hicks 7/3/2017]

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