What is an acceptable Indian light?

[Henry]

Those lantern holders are very pretty , quite usefull
but if you look at the military equipment lists , bills
etc , one comes to the conclusion that they just did not
exist at the time !

By the time of the 1914-18 war , personnal light gear
was still unknown , soldiers used one of the few
lanterns in the regimental gear .

One funny regulation , in the french army forbade
the use of a bayonet as a candle holder .
It might be the best proof that bayonets were actually
used as candle holders ?
:imo:

So ,safest un-PC but generally acceptable choice is still the barn lantern .

 

[TANSTAAFL]

The most common light was to uses pine pitch fagots which were large splinters tied into an elongated bundle. I have also seen cat tail reeds saturated with melted animal fat referenced.

In Alaska they had a candle fish, (small & smelt like) it was so oily that when dried, you could thread a wick through it's length and it would burn like a smoky and very smelly candle.

 

[bnail]

Texican, just stumbled across this while looking into an unrelated matter and thought you'd appreciate it:

"A Flambeau, or Torch of birchbark was used by the hunter for "shining" the deer and was attached to the bow of the canoe to provide light when fishing at night. Slender torches, stuck in the ground, were also used by the women when working around the camp after dark."
Larford, Carrie. Ojibwa Crafts. Stevens Pt, Wi: Schneider, 1982. Pp 46&47

 

[TexiKan]

Interesting! In the center, it looks like the "two sticks rubbed together" that Tansaafl stated! :haha:

Not exactly what I would care to use around the Rondy camp. Maybe I can make a case for the camp stitch Nazi regarding the little known Coleman tribe who had the ability to see very well in the night! :hmm:

Thanks for the info.

TexiKan
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If you continue to do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always got.

 

[Gaze]

Yes, I suspect that at night the lodge fires were going.

It depends on the time of year and how far north.

In June in Minnesota, you don't need any light. By sundown you ought to be worn out.

In February in Minnesota (especially around Frostbite Falls), you need a fire all night and that makes light. Many a night, I open the wood stove door to get light. Glowing coals are enough to see by.

I suspect light, in colonial times, was expensive. I don