[Aztlan] God L's tobacco

[D. M. Urquidi]

Karen:

They would have used the fire sticks. A small bow and a small stone to keep the fire stick upright when 
turning it with the bow. The soft piece of wood with a deprssion for the cotton to sit in and some cotton to create the fire.  One could use any fiber, or even dry grasses or chips of wood for the fire starter.

I used one in Canada a long time ago.  There was one set in the museum , a funny name, Bison Fall Down or some such, 

I picked up the bow and found that I could use it, but the fire stick hurt my hand. I reached down to a small stone nearby and clamped it on top of the fire stick, and I worked so perfectly holding it erect and allowing a good spin with the tiny bow, that I was surprised.  

I took it off the fire stick and found that there was a small depression on the bottom side, a perfect"seat"for the fire stick. Such a simple tool and so useful.

Dea

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--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Karen Bassie <rick.bassie at nucleus.com> wrote:

> From: Karen Bassie <rick.bassie at nucleus.com>
> Subject: [Aztlan] God L's tobacco
> To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
> Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 3:57 PM
> <>Hi Justin, You were a smoker?
> I am totally shocked.
> Regarding the food for traveling, balls of corn dough were
> certainly 
> taken on trips and ingested during the day. Stephens refers
> to his Ch'ol 
> carriers wearing a gourd on their heads while traveling.
> They would stop 
> at a stream, fill the gourd with water and mix in corn
> dough to create a 
> nourishing and refreshing posol drink. But it would be hard
> to sustain 
> long, hard travel without a substantial evening meal.
> I have tried carrying coals in a container, but it is a
> cumbersome 
> method, and the container gets unbelievably hot to handle.
> Although it 
> could have hung off the end of the back rack that merchants
> carried, a 
> burning ceramic container would certainly add weight and
> bulk to the 
> carrier's load. There are a number of references about road
> side altars 
> where merchants were expected to stop and burn incense to
> the merchant 
> gods. Landa said the merchants also burnt incense for the
> god every 
> night they were away from home. He said they carried a
> little incensario 
> dish for this purpose, but he doesn't say anything about
> what they used 
> to ignited the incense. It is the practical side of things
> that always 
> intrigues me.
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