2017.165.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Racquet-shaped fishing-kite of palm-leaf with lines, winders and spiders’ web lures. In a glass-fronted box. [FB 6/7/2017]

Geographical reference

Papua New Guinea

Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea

Massim D'Entrecasteaux Islands Dobu Island

Cultural groups

Anga

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source John Hubert Plunkett Murray

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1908

Date collected

By 1908

Acquisition information

Found unentered: 06/07/2017

Materials and processes

Material Palm Leaf Plant, Material Wood Plant, Material String, Material Spider Web, Process Tied, Process Perforated, Process Wound, Process Knotted, Process Twisted

Dimensions

Depth: max 38 mm, Width: max 396 mm, Length: max 675 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 2017.165.1

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. [FB 6/7/2017]

For a comprehensive account of kite-fishing, see This Ingenious and Singular Apparatus: Fishing Kites of the Indo-Pacific - Illustrated with Figures of the Things Describ'd, by Gerry Barton and Stefan Dietrich (Norderstedt: Books on Demand, in association with the Völkerkundemuseum vPST, Heidelberg, 2009). [JC 10 10 2019]

Search terms: Fishing, Tool, Fishing Accessory, Kite, Lure, Winder