. Bulletin - United States National Museum. I. Types of Torches. Torches of Resin 1, Borneo healing torch; 2, Kiuens, Burma; 3. Lower Siam; 4. Mindanao, PhilippineIslands; .=^, Porto Rico, West Indies; 6, Gaboon, Africa; 7. Lower Siam; 8, Singa-pore; 9, Massof fat on astick, MongoMa; 10, Fancifully wound taper, Virginia; 11,Link, Spain: 12, Mass of resin on stick, West Africa; 13, Candle-tree bark fortorch, Mexico; 14, Fat pine torch material, Virginia For description of plate see pages 199 and 202 FIRE AS AN AGENT IN HUMAN CULTURE 199 in the Western Hemisphere were in the torch stage. The Old
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. I. Types of Torches. Torches of Resin 1, Borneo healing torch; 2, Kiuens, Burma; 3. Lower Siam; 4. Mindanao, PhilippineIslands; .=^, Porto Rico, West Indies; 6, Gaboon, Africa; 7. Lower Siam; 8, Singa-pore; 9, Massof fat on astick, MongoMa; 10, Fancifully wound taper, Virginia; 11,Link, Spain: 12, Mass of resin on stick, West Africa; 13, Candle-tree bark fortorch, Mexico; 14, Fat pine torch material, Virginia For description of plate see pages 199 and 202 FIRE AS AN AGENT IN HUMAN CULTURE 199 in the Western Hemisphere were in the torch stage. The OldWorld, except in the areas where great advance in civihzation isseen, is also in the torch stage. There is presented here a series illustrating and suggesting thedevelopment of the torch and candle. In this series the torchmei^ges into the candle in accordance with the relationship whichexists between these forms of illumination. It is understood thatthe series only gives the stages of advance in invention and doesnot give genetic relationshi
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