Tinder-bag (depth 3 3/4 ins) of coarse canvas, dipped in blue-black ink; contains flint (a roughly-formed gun-flint), a steel (in form of hammer, combined with pick, screw-driver, and pricker). Afghanistan. [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].