Tinder tube made from scaly tail of armadillo
- Made:
- 1820-1920
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Tinder tube made from scaly tail of armadillo, silver lid and mountings, containing fine black tinder possibly Peruvian, certainly South American, 1820-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A683140
- Materials:
- armadillo, tail, curled and silver, cap, mounts, chain
- type:
- tinder tubes
