Context (Acquisition Details)
Donated by Alfred Claud Hollis, Esq, Sec of East Africa Protectorate, per Thomas Atholl Joyce of the British Museum.
Event Date 1908
Author: Mark Elliott

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for E 1908.14: 'Fire-sticks ('pionik'): three drills ('kirkit'), cylindrical sticks; and four hearths ('korket'), flat, rounded lengths of wood.'
Event Date 1908
Author: Annie Tomkins

Context (Production / use)
Catalogue card for E 1908.14 notes: 'The drill is said to be a male or bull the flat piece is female.'
Event Date 1908
Author: Annie Tomkins

Context (Acquisition Details)
Letter from Thomas Joyce, British Museum, dated 21 February 1908, to Anatole von Hügel notes: 'I am sending off to you a few Nandi objects, a present from A. C. Hollis, Sec. of the East Africa Protectorate. They are fully labelled.' [See Correspondence Box for Jan. - March 1908].
Event Date 21/02/1908
Author: Annie Tomkins

Description (Physical description)
Kirkit. Two wooden drills. Poinik (fire-stick) consists of a korket (hearth) used with a kirkit (drill) to start a fire by hand through surface friction.
Event Date 31/03/2022
Author: Annie Tomkins