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1931.86.99

Spider whose web is used for kite fishing lure. [MJD 21/05/2009]

1931.86.99

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Collection type
Object
Description
Spider whose web is used for kite fishing lure. [MJD 21/05/2009]
Geographical reference
Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea
Bougainville Buka Petats Island
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 Insect
Dimensions
Length 25 mm average
Object numbers
Accession number: 1931.86.99 Other numbers: Blackwood number 98
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]

Search terms: Animalia, Fishing, Specimen, Fishing Accessory

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