Fire Drill and Hearth in Sheath; Queensland, Australia

Fire-drill (length = 1105 mm x diameter = 11 mm), consisting of a wooden tapering wand; and Hearth (length = 1005 mm x diameter = 15 mm), main part, consisting of a wooden tapering wand, which is broken at one end, and with two small drill-pits: each with a side-notch, at one end; and Hearth broken part (length = 126 mm x diameter = 15 mm); and a Sheath (length = 270 mm), wooden double-barrelled, which at one end is overlaid with resinous pitch and scarlet-and-black Jequirity (Abrus precatorius) seeds, North Queensland, Australia, 1927-1937

Details

Category:
Firemaking
Object Number:
1937-682/43D
type:
hearths
credit:
Wilkinson Sword Ltd.

Parts

Fire-drill, consisting of a wooden tapering wand

Fire-drill, consisting of a wooden tapering wand

Fire-drill (length = 1105 mm x diameter = 15 mm), consisting of a wooden tapering wand, North Queensland, Australia, 1927-1937

Materials:
wood (unidentified)
Object Number:
1937-682/43D/1
type:
drill
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Hearth, consisting of a wooden tapering wand, with two drill-pits

Hearth, consisting of a wooden tapering wand, with two drill-pits

Hearth (length = 1005 mm x diameter = 15 mm), main part, consisting of a wooden tapering wand, which is broken at one end, and with two small drill-pits: each with a side-notch at the other end, North Queensland, Australia, 1927-1937

Materials:
wood (unidentified)
Object Number:
1937-682/43D/2/1
type:
hearths
Hearth, broken part

Hearth, broken part

Hearth (length = 126 mm x diameter = 15 mm), broken part, North Queensland, Australia, 1927-1937

Materials:
wood (unidentified)
Object Number:
1937-682/43D/2/2
type:
hearths
Sheath, with Jequirity (Abrus precatorius) seeds

Sheath, with Jequirity (Abrus precatorius) seeds

Sheath (length = 270 mm), wooden double-barrelled, which at one end is overlaid with resinous pitch and scarlet-and-black Jequirity (Abrus precatorius) seeds, North Queensland, Australia, 1927-1937

Materials:
abrus precatorius
Object Number:
1937-682/43D/3
type:
sheaths