Murray Island: Fire Making (5 September 1898)

Three men - Pasi, Sergeant and Mana - sit cross-legged on the ground, twirling a stick between their palms bearing upon a wood block (drill method). Length 30 seconds.

We are grateful to the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, for permission to reproduce images from the footage. All these images are © Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and may not be reproduced.

The photographs themselves are frame stills taken from a 16mm copy of the film at the UK's National Film and Television Archive.

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