Report of National Museum, 1893. -, „„ 



Plate 20. 



FIRE-DRILL.— Used to make sacred fire. 



Luutr [)iece of agave stalk, a soft, pithy wood, with 



harder longitudinal fibers, rendering it a good me- 



':^ dium for the purpose of making fire. Spindle, a 



smaller piece of the same material. 



Length of lower piece, 191^ inches; length of spindle, ' 



iS inches. 

 ZUNI IXDI.AXS (Zunian Stock), New Mexico. : 



127,708. ] 



Collected by J.amks .Stlvknson. ; 



With this set sa-.ul was used bv the Ziuii in the fire- ^ 



cavity to increase the friction. The fire is preserved in 

 a piece of decayed wood. It is the custom of the priests 

 JO moisten the sticks before beginninjj to drill out fire. 

 This r..nders the success much more difficult and there- 

 fore more meritorious in the sight of their },'ods. 





PRINTING BLOCK (Ban-jul-pan).— 

 *■ Wooden block; ends wedge-shaped for 

 htnng into a holder. Engraved. 



Length, 17^;^ inches: width, S inches. 



SEOUL, KOREA, 1885. 77,018. 



Collected by Ensign J. B Bern.\dou, U. S Navy. 



Blocks and movable type are both used in Korea. This is 

 a common block for printing the alphabet sheet from which 

 children learn the 6n-moun, or native Korean character. The 

 characters are arranged in vertical columns, and above each 

 is a rough pictorial representation of something containing the 

 initial consonant sound of the characters in the column. The 

 writing on the left is astrological. 



Satow says, "There are some Korean books dating back 

 to 13 1 7 and 1324, printed with movable type." 



HOATZIN. 



OPISTHOCOMCS CRISTA res Gmelin. 



BEREICE, DEMERARA. 1^,5,8. 



Gift of Demerara MfsEf.M. 



The most striking feature of the skeleton, and one peculiar 

 to the Hoatzin, is the shape of the breast-bone, the keel 

 being cut away in front where it is usually deepest. 



The food of the Hoatzin consists mainly of leaves of the 

 arum, and .ns large quantities of leaves are eaten, a large 

 crop IS required for their reception, and this crop completely 

 fills the space below the sternum where the keel is larking 



The lower end of the furcula (wish-bone) is united with 

 the sternum, and its upper ends with the coracoids— the 

 bones to which the wings are articulated. 



The Hoat/in is the sole member of the order Opistho^omi 

 and IS probably the representative of a once more numerous 

 group of birds of generalized structure. 



Specimen forms of labels. 



