FIRE-MAKING APPARATUS. 



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The Ainos of Japan use flint and steel for striking-a-light, tins method 

 having- supphmted the generation of fire by sticks (p. 551.) This out- 

 fit shown (fig. 57, pi. Lxxxi) is complete. The shoe-shaped steel is at- 

 tached by a piece of sinew to the cork of a small wooden bottle con- 

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

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



fire for a long time. It is the root 

 of the TJlmus canipestris, or Icevis, 

 formerly used for the fire-drill (see 

 fig. 17), but has come into a sec- 

 ondary place since the introduc- 

 tion of the flint and steel. 



Fig. 54. 

 Flint and Steel. 



Fig. 56. 

 Stkike-a-light. 



(Cat. No 126.'>76, U. s. N. M. GuacJiilajara Indians, Mexico. 



Collected by EdwaiH Palmer.) (Cat. No. 130311, U. S. N. M. China. Gift of George G. Fryer. ) 



Fig. 55. 

 Smokers' Pipe-lighting Outfit (.showing flint, steel, pipe-pick, and pincers). 



(Cat. No, 130007, U S N. M, Koords ol Bliotan, eastern Turkey. Collected by Rev. A. N. Andru,s. ) 



