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1937.5.1

Fishing kite & line. In a glass-fronted frame [together with 1937.5.2]. [El.B 26/3/2008]

1937.5.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Fishing kite & line. In a glass-fronted frame [together with 1937.5.2]. [El.B 26/3/2008]
Person
Field collector John Lewis Rosedale
PRM source John Lewis Rosedale
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1937
Date collected
By 1937
Acquisition information
Donated: 1937
Materials and processes
Material Fern Plant, Material Plant Leaf, Material Metal Wire, Process Stitched, Process Twisted
Dimensions
Width: max 295 mm frame, Depth: max 25 mm frame, Length: max 555 mm frame
Object numbers
Accession number: 1937.5.1
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. [JC 12 6 2008]

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]

Associated publications
Referred to (with 1937.5.2 and 1937.24.1) on page 150 of 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] Listed as number 140 on page 279 of 'Appendix I: Collection Locations' in 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]

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