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 662
Anna, 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 rib and are continued … 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…
