Rubbing stick from fire sawing apparatus. Made from a length of split bamboo, the centre of which has been notched and perforated to create a single hole which shows evidence of burning. [AFS [OPS move] 26/11/2018]

Collection type: Object
Description: Rubbing stick from fire sawing apparatus. Made from a length of split bamboo, the centre of which has been notched and perforated to create a single hole which shows evidence of burning. [AFS [OPS move] 26/11/2018]
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: 1800-1900
Date collected: April 1900
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Bamboo Plant, Process Carved, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Depth: max 25 mm, Width: max 54 mm, Length: max 345 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.53.4 Other numbers: 733 d
Research and responses: Card and book refer to Leveson as H E Leveson, but he is undoubtedly H G A Leveson [SD]
Balfour does refer to an 'H.E. Leveson' in his 1907 chapter, 'The Fire-Piston', in Anthropological Essays Presented to Edward Burnett Tylor, Oxford, Clarendon Press, (see, for example, pages 23 and 26), so the identity of Leveson remains unclear. [FL 14/10/2004]

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