. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . chert, probably an ancient;implement picked up from the surface. The steel is a very neatly made oval, resembling those of the Albanianstrike-a-lights,§ or the Koordish pattern, ( fig. 54). Here arises one ofthe perplexities of modern intercourse, perhaps both of these steelswere derived from the same commercial center. * See figure in D. Bruce Peebless address on Illumination, in Trans. Roy. ScottishSociety of Arts, Edinburgh, xii., part i, p. Nordenskiold.—Voyage of the Fer/a. n, p. 122. t The George Catlin Indian
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . chert, probably an ancient;implement picked up from the surface. The steel is a very neatly made oval, resembling those of the Albanianstrike-a-lights,§ or the Koordish pattern, ( fig. 54). Here arises one ofthe perplexities of modern intercourse, perhaps both of these steelswere derived from the same commercial center. * See figure in D. Bruce Peebless address on Illumination, in Trans. Roy. ScottishSociety of Arts, Edinburgh, xii., part i, p. Nordenskiold.—Voyage of the Fer/a. n, p. 122. t The George Catlin Indian Gallery. Smithsonian Report. 1885. ii, p. 456.§ See figure in Jour. Anthrop. Inst. Great Britain, xvi, 1886, p. 67. 580 EEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. The fliut, steel, aud tinder were always carried in a pouch, usuallysuspended from a belt as in specimen No. 8481 from the Assiniboius(Siouan stock) of Dakota, This is a buckskin waist-belt, beaded andfring-ed, ornamented with bells of tin. It supports a flapped pouch forthe flint, etc. The tinder used was
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