Note 213 — LEGENDS. (continued 4)
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The fire-drill is very little used by the Navahoes at the present time,—matches and flint-and-steel having taken its place; but it is frequently mentioned in the myths and is employed in the ceremonies. Of the many aboriginal fire-drills, described and depicted by Dr. Walter Hough in his excellent paper on “Fire-making Apparatus,”302 that of the Navahoes is the rudest. It looks like a thing that had been made to order.