Fire-drill and Hearth (lengths 31 ins and 32 ins)

Fire-drill and Hearth (lengths 31 ins and 32 ins); the ends of both inserted into a short wooden sheath for their protection against wet; the sheath (6 1/2 ins long) bound round many times with a narrow strip of linen; all three parts thickly smeared with black resinous varnish; a narrow band of silver or nickel, cut from some engraved plate of metal (not native work), encircles the hearth; from North Queensland. Australia.