. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . IS 1 Fig. 57. Strike-alight. Flint, steel, tinder-box, and rush-pouch. Cat. No. 22257, U. S. N. M. Ainosof Yezo, Japan. Collected by B. S. Lyman. FIEE-MAKING APPAKATUS. 585 the point of the steel. These articles are kept in a rush i^ouch oftwined weaving. A much ruder pouch of fishskin is in the Japanese tinder-box has two compartments, one with a damperfor the tinder, and the other larger one for the flint and steel. This boxis a familiar object in Japanese kitchens yet. The mounting of the steelin wood is an
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . IS 1 Fig. 57. Strike-alight. Flint, steel, tinder-box, and rush-pouch. Cat. No. 22257, U. S. N. M. Ainosof Yezo, Japan. Collected by B. S. Lyman. FIEE-MAKING APPAKATUS. 585 the point of the steel. These articles are kept in a rush i^ouch oftwined weaving. A much ruder pouch of fishskin is in the Japanese tinder-box has two compartments, one with a damperfor the tinder, and the other larger one for the flint and steel. This boxis a familiar object in Japanese kitchens yet. The mounting of the steelin wood is an improvement on holding it between the fingers (fig. 58 and59). JSTo one it seems ever thought of so mounting the steel in Westerncountries. The matches are broad shavings tipped at both ends withsulphur, and are the Japanese rendering of the spunks used with
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