Tinder-pouch (length 7 1/2 ins) of brown leather, the front and ends covered with scarlet cloth, now much moth-eaten; long in shape, the bottom being wider than the top; flap at top held closed by a loop-and-button of twisted leather, now partly missing; contains flint (the basal portion of a worked Neolithic axe-head, apparently British) and tinder (apparently plant-down); steel missing; with it is a narrow belt of thin brown leather, passing through two leather loops on back; from Asia, but country of origin (probably India) unknown. Asia. [One of 14 examples (nos 939-952). All ASiatic. Most designed to be suspended from a belt or girdle. Steel is usually carried inside the pouch together with flint and tinder. Tinder is usually fungus-tinder, but often match-tinder in the form of cotton threads loosely twisted into cord an d inserted into a small bamboo tube or hollow stick].