Fire-saw. Made from a piece of wood which is flat on both sides and cut diagonally at one end. For the associated hearth see 1938.35.52 .2 [SB [OPS Move] 12/4/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Fire-saw. Made from a piece of wood which is flat on both sides and cut diagonally at one end. For the associated hearth see 1938.35.52 .2 [SB [OPS Move] 12/4/2017]
Geographical reference: Myanmar (Burma)
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma); West Kayah (Karenni) State Naungpale
Cultural groups: Shan
Person: Field collector Henry George Ashworth Leveson; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1891
Date collected: By 1891
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Bamboo Plant, Process Carpentered
Dimensions: Length: max 379 mm, Depth: max 10 mm, Width: max 23 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.52.1 Other numbers: 732 a
Research and responses: Given by Leveson (card and book refer to him 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]