Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August, 1913 (1913)
Cambridge : University press · leaf 656
nvironment mainly of Melanesian culture(Massim). Dr C. G. Seligmann tells me that he wasinformed that the fishing-kite is employed on NormanbyIsland in the DEntrecasteaux group. It is certainlyused freely in Dobu, an island lying between NormanbyIsland and Ferguson Island, at the east end of… … Fig. 6. Dobu Island. To this are attached two strings, one probably not lessthan a fourth or even a third of a mile in length, butit may, for fishing from the beach, be much shorter.The other end of this is in the hand of the fisherman,and by it he regulates the position of the kite. Theother…
