Bamboo split in half and wedged apart to form a triangular frame covered with spider webs [in a display box]. [MJD 28/05/2009]

Collection type: Object
Description: Bamboo split in half and wedged apart to form a triangular frame covered with spider webs [in a display box]. [MJD 28/05/2009]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Bougainville
Person: Field collector Beatrice Mary Blackwood; PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood
Date / Period: Date made: Before 06/1930
Date collected: June 1930
Acquisition information: Donated: 1931
Materials and processes: Material Spider Web, Material Bamboo Plant, Material Wood Plant, Process Split, Process Carved, Process Wedged
Dimensions: Width: max 155 mm box, Length: max 385 mm box
Object numbers: Accession number: 1931.86.95 Other numbers: Blackwood number 94
Research and responses: For an account of the technology and distribution of kite-fishing, see 'Kite-Fishing', by Henry Balfour, in Essays and Studies Presented to William Ridgeway ... On His Sixtieth Birthday, 6 August 1913, edited by E. C. Quiggin (Cambridge: at the University Press, 1913), pp. 583-608. [JC 12 6 2008]

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