Large photograph showing a Choroti man

PART OF:: Bryant and May collection of fire-making appliances.

Made:: Bow and Bow and

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Large photograph showing a Choroti man
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Large photograph showing a Choroti man, inhabiting the Gran Chaco, of Bolivia, engaged in drilling fire; man squats on ground, holding hearth in position on a piece of hide with left foot, and drills with a tip of soft wood inserted in end of an arrow-shaft; photo taken by Count Eric von Rosen, of Rockelstad Castle, Sparreholm, Sweden, during the Swedish Chaco-Cordillera Expedition of 1901-2, and presented by him in 1927.

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Category:: Firemaking

Object Number:: 1937-682/23A

type:: photographs

credit:: Wilkinson Sword Ltd.

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