Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August, 1913 (1913)
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17. Santa Anna,Solomons. 598 H. BALFOUR the kite is made of strips of palm-leaf sewn together andstrengthened with thin longitudinal and transverse rods.The kite is rectangular in shape and is furnished withbands of palm-leaf which run diagonally from the mid-ribto the ends of the main transverse… … Fig. 18. Reef Islands, Santa Cruz. beyond the latter as streamers. The mid-rib is prolongedbelow the kite into a long tail. From the geographical distribution of the fishing-kiteas above given, it will be seen that there are two mainareas of dispersal, (i) the Malayan Archipelago, wherethis method…
