Object Number | 29-58-148 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Malay |
Provenience | Borneo | Sarawak |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Paper | Wood | Plant Fiber | Pigment |
Description | Diamond shaped kite made of thin paper attached to a framework of crossed sticks, and reinforced by strings. The strings are held to the paper by small orange lozenge-shaped pieces of other paper pasted over them at numerous points. One of three "Malay kites" on Furness's collection list (Nos. 174, 175, 176). One of "3 Malay kites - 2 sticks, covered w diamonds" exhibited at Wistar in May 1897. |
Height | 5 cm |
Length | 75 cm |
Width | 70 cm |
Credit Line | Received from various sources, pre-1929 |
Other Number | 174 - Collector Number |
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