1913.88.285

Collection type

Object

Description

Racquet-like frame, upon which the spider’s web is collected for making fish lures [in a glass-fronted box with 1913.88.284]. [El.B 26/3/2008]

Geographical reference

Papua New Guinea

Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea

Massim D'Entrecasteaux Islands Dobu Island

Person

Field collector Diamond Jenness

PRM source Committee for Anthropology, University of Oxford

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1913

Date collected

By 1913

Acquisition information

Donated: 1913

Materials and processes

Material Bamboo Plant, Material Spider Web, Process Split, Process Carved

Dimensions

Depth: max 51 mm frame, Width: max 425 mm frame, Length: max 2400 mm frame

Object numbers

Accession number: 1913.88.285

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]

Associated publications

Either this or 1913.88.284 must be the example illustrated as a line-drawing as Figure 8 on page 590 of '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. In the accompanying text, Balfour writes that Jenness 'also sent me two of the frames upon which the spider's web is collected (Fig. 8)'. [JC 12 6 2008]

Search terms: Fishing, Fishing Accessory, Lure