Plate 75 (face pg. 136) from C.Hose / W.McDougall (1912): The Pagan Tribes of Borneo.
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Title: The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hose, Charles, 1863-1929 McDougall, William, 1871-1938 Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropometry
Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ut seven feet apart ;where each terminates a stout pole is driven firmlyinto the bed of the river. These two poles are con-nected by a stout cross-piece lashed to them a littleabove the level of the water. The cross-piece formsa fulcrum for a pair of long poles joined togetherwith cross-pieces, in such a way that their down-stream ends almost meet, while up stream theydiverge widely. They rest upon the fulcrum at apoint about one-third of their length from their down-stream ends. Between the widely divergent partsup stream from the fulcrum a net is loosely stretched.The net lies submerged until fish coming downstream are directed on to the net by the convergentfences. The fisherman stands on a rude platformgrasping the handle-end, and, feeling the contacts ofthe fishes with the net, throws his weight upon thehandle, so bringing the net quickly above the surface.Beside him he has a large cage of bamboo standingin the water, into which the fish are allowed to slidefrom the elevated net.
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