Making Fire

An essential survival guide. Discusses fire making amongst indigenous people, in particular amongst Australia’s Aborigines. Making fire is a basic survival skill, a way of attracting attention if one is lost alone in remote bushland. Shown here without using modern tools, it is possible to use crude pieces of rock to fashion fire sticks and from these, to make fire. Making fire is a basic survival skill – a way of attracting attention, staying warm, and preparing food when lost and alone in remote bushland. Here four traditional methods of making fire are demonstrated, and fire making amongst indigenous people of the world is discussed.
Stephen Blake demonstrates four ways of making fire, rubbing two sticks together using the hand drill, bow drill, fire saw and fire plough. Shown here without using modern tools, it is possible to use crude pieces of rock to fashion fire sticks and form these to make fire.
Australian Aboriginal culture series ; no. 2. 105 p. : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm. #190222 Firemaking. | Firemaking — Australia. | Aboriginal Australians — Fire use. | Campfires | Technology – Wood – Fire sticks. | Technology – Fire – Fire making. Northern Territory