Starting A Fire Old School Style!

Today i went and visited a Emanyatta (traditional Maasai homestead) about 30min walk outside the town center. While i was there socializing with some of the Olmeshuki (the most recent warrior group and my peers) they taught me which sticks to use and how to make hot ash, by spinning the one stick into the other, which is then capable of lighting dry grass on fire, thus allowing one to make fire!

This is a picture from today: in the background is the fire and in the foreground are the two sticks i used. They say one stick (the light colored, longer one) is from the sandpaper tree. The other they say (the shorter, thicker, darker one) is from the cedar tree.

F. Porter Nellans Jr. - From Kenya With Care