M0005569: Illustration of a hand drill used to create fire by the Hupa people, California

Date:
8 August 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/45/81
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M0005569: Illustration of a hand drill used to create fire by the Hupa people, California. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Fire-making with simple two-stick apparatus of the Hapas

Description

Reproduction of an illustration published in Hough, Walter: The methods of fire-making, Washington, 1890. A photograph of the illustration was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10829).

Publication/Creation

8 August 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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