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- OBJECT TYPE
- BALINESE EAGLE
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2003.0072.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Indonesia
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- WOOD FRAME/ SILK? COVERED BODY/ SILK? WINGS/ FABRIC WRAPPED METAL LEGS WITH WOOD? TALONS/ STRING
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 30.0 cm
- Width
- 63.0 cm
- Height
- 9.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Miscellaneous
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Indonesia
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Indonesia
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
SPECIMEN FROM CANADIAN COLLECTION OF INTERNATIONAL KITES. MR. YVES LAFOREST IS KITE COLLECTOR & FLIER FROM MONTREAL AREA. - Function
-
LIGHT FRAME COVERED WITH LIGHT MATERIAL, LIFTED BY WIND & FLOWN BY LONG CORD, USUALLY BUT NOT ALWAYS FOR RECREATIONAL PURPOSES. SOME KITES OF THIS TYPE WERE USED TO FRIGHTEN BIRDS AWAY FROM RICE PADDIES. - Technical
-
ELABORATE KITES IN FORM OF BUTTERFLIES, BIRDS & BATS ARE MADE ON INDONESIAN ISLAND OF BALI & ARE INTEGRAL PART OF LOCAL FOLKLORE AS WELL AS POPULAR PASTIME. FARMERS FLY KITES RESEMBLING BIRDS OF PREY TO PROTECT RICE PADDIES FROM BIRDS. KITE RANGE IN SIZEFROM VERY SMALL TO VERY LARGE & ARE USUALLY MADE OF HAND PAINTED SILK ON BAMBOO FRAME (REF. 1). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- CW ATTACHED ABEL READING "AIGLE BALI 4'/ (CV AIGLE PI BALI) (-20%) 75.00"
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- GREEN BODY WITH BLACK MARKINGS/ GREEN WINGS WITH BLACK, WHITE & YELLOW MARKINGS/ PINK & BLACK LEGS, WHITE TALONS/ RED & YELLOW PAINTED BEAK, RED & WHITE PAINTED EYES/ UNFINISHED WOOD/ WHITE STRING
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Kite, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 2003.0072, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2003.0072.001/
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