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Parakites : a treatise on the making and flying of tailless kites for scientific purposes and for recreation (1896)

Woglom, Gilbert Totten · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 37

An illustration from Parakites : a treatise on the making and flying of tailless kites for scientific purposes and for recreation, 1896, leaf 37 — Parakites. 12 The Javanese more generally than the Japanese gamble on the re- sults of kite competitions and kite battles. They fly to heights of 700 to 1,200 feet for display. The several Javanese communities have each their kite structures peculiar to themselves, and hold contests during which to… … DIAGRAM I. Most of the Javanese kites are so poised as to require no tails. They differ little from the Japanese except in such details of their construction as emphasize the indolence of the Javanese. They (the kites) are seldom decorated but with dirt. The kite battles are peculiarly Asiatic.…

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