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Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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the latter one-fourthof an inch. They were collected by Dr. Charles Pick-ering in 1843. It is possible that the Somalis may have carried thismethod with them from Arabia. They conquered thiscoast, driving back the earlier tribes inhabiting the coun-try in the early part of the fifteenth century. Long sincethat time, and even now, some Arab tribes practice thedrilling of wooden sticks to produce fire. In eastern equatorial Africa the Wataveita, says Mr. H.H. Johnston, generate fire in the common African wayby rapidly drilling a hard-pointed stick into a small holein a flat piece of wood. An interesting bit of customcomes out in connection with this art among the people.It is the exclusive privilege of the men, and the secretis handed down from father to son, and never under anyconditions (as they say) revealed to women. I asked w Fig. 19.FiuE-MAKixG Set. (Cat. No. 129971, U.S. N.M. SoTiiiili.sE. Africa.Collected Ijy Dr. CharlesPickering. Lent byPeabody Museumthrough Prof. F. W.Putnam.)
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Pig 20. Taveita Afuicans Making Fire. After H. H. .lohnston. (See Jour. Soc. Arts, .Tune 24, 1887.) one man why that was. Oh, he said, if women knewhow to make fire they would become our masters.* Thefigure (fig. 20) shows how this people of the great Bantustock make fire; this tribe visited by Mr Johnston liveson the slopes of the beautiful Kilimanjaro Mountain.* J. Anthrop. lust. Great Britain and Ireland. 1885. xv, p. 10, 654 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. Mr. K. W. Fclkiii*, in a study of the Maidu or Morn negroes ofCentral Africa, .5^ north latitude, 30° 20 east lougitnde, describes thefire-making of that tribe. He sajS that one piece of wood about thesize and shape of a large pencil is rotated in a hole in a flat i)iece ofhard wood. One man holds the wood steady whilst two others take itin turn to rotate the stick. This article of Mr. Felkius is commended toethnologists as a model ethnologic study in method and research. That veteran and renowned explorer, Dr. Schweinfurth, g

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