Tinder-bag (depth 7 1/4 ins) of some buff-coloured finely-woven grass fibre, with transverse blue-grey bands, lined with thin white leather; no flap, top being closed by a cord drawn through rings; contains two flints (roughly made gun-flints), steel (probably French, resembling no. 336) stamped with some device, and tinder (fungus); believed to have come from the Island of North Luzon. ? Philippine Islands. [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].