Gallery Title
Gallery Title
Tibetan Tinder Box
Accession Number NWHRM : 3068
Description
A Tibetan purse-shaped tinder box containing a flint. One item from a collection of material from Tibet collected by mambers of the Machine Gun Section of the 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment which accompanied Colonel Younghusband on his 'Poilitcal Mission' into the country.
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The intense cold of the Himilayas means that the ability to make a fire is essential. Striking a flint on to a steel edge to make a spark is an age-old way of starting a fire. Small items such as this were treated as trinkets by those on the Youghusband mission to Tibet, and were eagerly traded by Tibetans for Indian rupees.
Measurements
12 mm
Department
Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum
