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Description: | Fire-drill and Hearth (lengths 51 ins and 50 ins), consisting of two long thin tapering wands of the same wood; neither smeared with resin; the ends of both inserted into a short sheath (7 ins long) of wood for protection against wet; the wooden sheath thickly overlaid with resinous pitch and closely set with the large glossy scarlet-and-black seeds of the Jequirity (Abrus precatorius); from North Queensland. Australia. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Source: | Science Museum | Identifier: | 1937-682/43 | Go to resource |
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