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Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway : on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August, 1913 (1913)

Ridgeway, William, Sir, 1853-1926, Quiggin, Edmund Crosby, 1875-1920 · Cambridge, [England] : University Press · leaf 655

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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 the… … 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 tv^igs. Attached to the fishing-line was an object somewhat resembling a tennis…

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