. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . fig. 45), can be seen this feature. Thetinder with this set is rotten wood. Nearly all Indians know the valueof fungus tinder. The Comanche Indian strike-a-light is a similar pouch to the one de-scribed, but much poorer in equipment (fig. 53.) A broken rasp, a pieceof chert, and a piece of spunk, is enough for the purpose, aud a bag madefrom a saddle skirt to hold them, completes the outfit. The flint and steel is still used nearly all over Mexico, Dr. Palmerinforms me. There is at present a manufacture of gun and strike-
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . fig. 45), can be seen this feature. Thetinder with this set is rotten wood. Nearly all Indians know the valueof fungus tinder. The Comanche Indian strike-a-light is a similar pouch to the one de-scribed, but much poorer in equipment (fig. 53.) A broken rasp, a pieceof chert, and a piece of spunk, is enough for the purpose, aud a bag madefrom a saddle skirt to hold them, completes the outfit. The flint and steel is still used nearly all over Mexico, Dr. Palmerinforms me. There is at present a manufacture of gun and strike-a-light flints at Brandon, England, whence they are shipped to Spain, *Se6 figure in JalirbucU Mittekcliweiz. Commercial. GegeUsch, Arau, :5weiterBaud, 1888, pp. 114-115. FIRE-MAKING APPAEATUS. 581 Mexico, Italy, and other civilized countries. Doubtless this flint fromGuadalajara (fig. 54) came from Brandon. Itisreal calcareous flint, suchas does not exist in this country. The flint is the swallow-tail pat-tern. The tinder is of prepared fungus sold in little Fig. (flint, steel, tinder-horn, spunk, and pouch). (Cat. Ko. 22104, U. S. N. M. Cheyenne Indiana, Arkansas. Collected by Dr. J. H. Barry.) The Koords of Bhotan, Eastern Turkey, carry a pipe pouch contain-ing besides flint, steel, and tinder, a pipe pick and a pair of pincers, 582 KEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. to transfer the lighted tinder to the pipe (fig. 55). The tinder is pre-pared from a fungus, probably ^olyporus species. The steel, shapedlike an old-fashioned bell pull, is a very good form for holding in thehand.
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