. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. and Steel. (Cat. No. 22431, U. S. N. M. Otoe Indians, Kansas and Nebraska. Collected by J. W. Griest.) The pouch of the Oheyennes (Algonquian stock) is compact, and neatlymade of leather (fig. 52). The equipment is complete aud of a supe-rior order. The bone cup is used to hold the tinder while striking aspark into it. It is the tinder horn of early days, a cows horn which wasused to hold tinder before sheet-iron boxes came into use. The Lenguasof Brazil use a horn for the same purpose.* In the Aiuo set, (fi
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. and Steel. (Cat. No. 22431, U. S. N. M. Otoe Indians, Kansas and Nebraska. Collected by J. W. Griest.) The pouch of the Oheyennes (Algonquian stock) is compact, and neatlymade of leather (fig. 52). The equipment is complete aud of a supe-rior order. The bone cup is used to hold the tinder while striking aspark into it. It is the tinder horn of early days, a cows horn which wasused to hold tinder before sheet-iron boxes came into use. The Lenguasof Brazil use a horn for the same purpose.* In the Aiuo set, (fig. 57),and the Eskimo strike-a-light, (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 near
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