Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August, 1913 (1913)
Cambridge : University press · leaf 659
cob-web tangle, mwanaikua; kite, daune; string,nosanosa ; winder, oapenu ; tail of string, iuiu ;ornamental flag, doe. A specimen of the spider whose web ismost commonly, though not exclusively, em-ployed for making lures has been sent me byMr Jenness, and is shown in Fig. 9. It isquite common in… … Fig. 9. Dobu Island. the use of the fishing-kite on Kitava Island in the Trobriand group, though, unfortunately, she gives no figure of the apparatus. The kite is described as made of dried banana leaves stretched on twigs. Attached to the fishing-line was an object somewhat resembling a tennis…
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