ART. 14 



FIRE-MAKING APPARATUS HOUGH 



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The Ainos of Japan use flint and steel for striking a light, this 

 method having supplanted the generation of fire by sticks (p. 26.) 

 This outfit shown (fig. 54) is complete. The shoe-shaped steel 



Fig. 50.— Flint and steel. Cat. No. 126576, 

 U.S.N.M. Guadalajara, Indians, Mexico. 

 Collected by Edward Palmer 



Fig. 51.— Strike-a-light. Cat. No. 130311, 

 U.S.N.M. China. Gift of George O. Fryeb 



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Fig. 52.— Smokers' pipe-lighting outfit showing flint, steel, pipe pick, and 

 pincers). Cat. No. 130607, U.S.N.M. Koords of Bhotan, eastern Turkey. 

 Collected by Rev. A. N. Andrus. 



is attached by a piece of sinew to the cork of a small wooden bottle 

 containing the soft charcoal used as tinder. The flint is a small 

 piece of ferruginous silex. With this set is a piece of stick which 



