ART. 14 



FIRE-MAKING APPARATUS HOUGH 



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The specimens are as follows: 



Cat. No. 326011, a set from the Battaks of Palawan, collected by 

 Capt. E. Y. Miller. The bamboo tube is 14 inches long (35.5 cm.), 

 three-fourths inch deep (2 cm.); the boxes are 534 inches long (13.5 

 cm. and 3.1 inches deep (5.25 cm.). (PI. 10, fig. 1.) One of the boxes 

 contains tinder and a bit of flint. Cat. No. 326012, Battaks, Palawan, 

 P. I. Mrs. F. G. Miller has a bamboo tube 17.6 inches long (44.5 

 cm.), 1 inch deep (2.6 cm.). One tinder box is 5.5 inches long (14 

 cm.) and 1.7 inches deep (4.5 cm.). The box contains tinder and a 



piece of flint. (PI. 10, fig. 4.) 

 Cat. No. 232283, Malays of 

 Balabac, an island south of 

 Palawan, P. I.; collected by 

 Capt. E. Y. Miller. Captain 

 Miller has two tinder boxes 

 not matched as to size. The 

 bamboo tube is 17.45 inches 

 long (44 cm.), 1.1 inches deep 

 (2.5 cm.). The larger tinder 

 box is 7 inches long (18 cm.), 

 2.4 inches deep (6 cm.). (PI. 

 10, fig. 2.) The tinder is 

 brown and appears to be the 

 scurf of a palm. The striker 

 is a gunflint. Two well-dec- 

 orated tinder boxes brought 

 from Palawan by Captain 

 Miller are Figure 3, Plate 10, 

 and measure 5.5 inches long 

 (14 cm.), 2.4 inches deep (6 

 cm.) ; 5.5 inches long (14 cm.), 

 2 inches deep (5 cm.). Cat. No. 

 326013. 



Plate 9, Figures 1, 3, show 

 boxes open exposing tinder. 

 Above Figure 3 is a pistol flint found in one of the boxes. Ordinarily 

 a bit of broken dish is employed, since flint is not local in a vast 

 Pacific area. 



There is evidence that the bamboo strike-a-light had a considerable 

 range in Malaysia, and notices of it have come from Cochin China, 

 southern Philippines, Ternate, and Waigiou, an island off the north- 

 west point of New Guinea, all on a line running southeast from 

 Cochin China. 



Fig. 56.— Smokers' strike-a-ught. Cat. Nc. 128138, 

 U.S.N.M. ToKio, Japan. Gift of the Japanese 

 Department of Education 



