Firestarting steel
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Mississippi Choctaw
- Previous owner
- Calvin Isam, Mississippi Choctaw
- Collector
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Object Name
- Firestarting steel
- Media/Materials
- Steel
- Techniques
- Forged
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Native Term
- ta le tcu nu ka be'
- Place
- Neshoba County and Scott County; Mississippi; USA
- Collection History
- Collected from Calvin Isam (Mississippi Choctaw) in 1908 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
- Catalog Number
- 1/8827
- Barcode
- 018827.000
- See related items
- Mississippi Choctaw
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement