Hair Skin Tinder-Case, Fire Stone, Carved Clasp Item Number: E20861-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "STRIKE-A-LIGHT.---RECEPTACLE, MADE OF SEAL SKIN, CONTAINING FLINT AND PYRITES, AND A MASS OF SHREDDED CEDAR BARK FOR TINDER, OR KINDLING. THE RECEPTACLE IS ROLLED AROUND THE BARK AND FASTENED WITH A THONG. STIKINE INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN STOCK), FORT WRANGELL, ALASKA. 20,861. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN." The same information is also on an old typed label stored with the artifact.
Item History
- Made in Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by James G. Swan in Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA during 1875
- Received during 1876
What
- Name
- Hair Skin Tinder-Case, Fire Stone, Carved Clasp
- Identification Number
- E20861-0
- Type of Item
- fire set
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit and Stikine
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Fort Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- during 1875
- Acquisition Date
- during 1876
Other
- Accession Number
- 004730