Question:
What is it?
 

 

Teachers trying to figure it out.

(They didn't.)

 

Video answeR!
A flint and steel used to make fires. Life on the frontier was very difficult and required hard work and lots of inginuity.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/ourstory/activities/sodhouse/

     

Here are teachers trying to build a functional device from the limited amount of materials availalbe to them.