Fire stick
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
535 mm (Length)255 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Nagashush
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303778
Summary
One of six fire sticks, collected in the Nagashush Mountains of Sudan, collected 22nd December 1928 and marked with Lord Egerton's number 219B. Made from El Bahn wood, marked in pen with this local name at the top of the sticks. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in the Nagashush Mountains of Sudan, 22nd December 1928