Flint, steel, and tinder, used by the Batang-Lupar Dyaks of the Kapuas River, Borneo, 1912

Flint (a rough lump of chalcedony, length 1 3/8 in), steel (exactly like that from Shanghai noticed above, no. 180), and tinder (threads of cotton, twisted and plaited, dyed yellow, and inserted in a very small tube of bamboo, diam. 3/8 in); used by the Batang-Lupar Dyaks of the Kapuas River, Dutch Borneo; collected in August 1912 by Mr. J. F. R. Wollaston. Borneo.

Details

Category:
Firemaking
Object Number:
1937-682/181
type:
credit:
Wilkinson Sword Ltd.

Parts

Flint, used with steel and tinder, by the Batang-Lupar Dyaks of the Kapuas River, Borneo, 1912

Flint, used with steel and tinder, by the Batang-Lupar Dyaks of the Kapuas River, Borneo, 1912

Flint (a rough lump of chalcedony, length 1 3/8 in), used by the Batang-Lupar Dyaks of the Kapuas River, Dutch Borneo; collected in August 1912 by Mr. J. F. R. Wollaston. Borneo. Used with steel (exactly like that from Shanghai noticed above, no. 180), and tinder (threads of cotton, twisted and plaited, dyed yellow, and inserted in a very small tube of bamboo, diam. 3/8 in)

Object Number:
1937-682/181/1
type:
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Steel, used with flint and tinder, by the Batang-Lupar Dyaks of the Kapuas River, Borneo, 1912

Steel, used with flint and tinder, by the Batang-Lupar Dyaks of the Kapuas River, Borneo, 1912

Steel (exactly like that from Shanghai noticed above, no. 180), used by the Batang-Lupar Dyaks of the Kapuas River, Dutch Borneo; collected in August 1912 by Mr. J. F. R. Wollaston. Borneo. Used with flint (a rough lump of chalcedony, length 1 3/8 in) and tinder (threads of cotton, twisted and plaited, dyed yellow, and inserted in a very small tube of bamboo, diam. 3/8 in)

Object Number:
1937-682/181/2
type:
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Steel, used with flint and tinder, by the Batang-Lupar Dyaks of the Kapuas River, Borneo, 1912

Steel, used with flint and tinder, by the Batang-Lupar Dyaks of the Kapuas River, Borneo, 1912

Tinder (threads of cotton, twisted and plaited, dyed yellow, and inserted in a very small tube of bamboo, diam. 3/8 in), used by the Batang-Lupar Dyaks of the Kapuas River, Dutch Borneo; collected in August 1912 by Mr. J. F. R. Wollaston. Borneo. Used with flint (a rough lump of chalcedony, length 1 3/8 in) and steel (exactly like that from Shanghai noticed above, no. 180)

Object Number:
1937-682/181/3
type:
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum