Two years among New Guinea cannibals : a naturalist's sojourn among the aborigines of unexplored New Guinea /

Pratt, A. E.; Pratt, Henry N.

doi:10.5962/bhl.title.106644

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“…For this reason, spider silks have been employed as wound dressings in military service by ancient Greeks, and as fishing supplies by people in South Pacific areas. New Guinea residents use a wooden frame to entice the spiders into weaving nets with desired shape and size . Also, people in the Solomon Islands make a special spiderweb lure to catch fish in an innovative way called kite fishing, where the lure is dangled below a kite and thus could fly and bounce along the water surface…”

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“…New Guinea residents use a wooden frame to entice the spiders into weaving nets with desired shape and size. 36 Also, people in the Solomon Islands make a special spiderweb lure to catch fish in an innovative way called kite fishing, where the lure is dangled below a kite and thus could fly and bounce along the water surface. 37 Apart from conventional utilizations, a research boom has emerged and continues in recent decades about modification of natural silks as well as the construction of silk-based composite materials, with the aim of further exploiting their potential in both construction industry and fundamental studies.…”

Section: Natural Silk Fibersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Spinning and Applications of Bioinspired Fiber Systems

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Natural fiber systems provide inspirations for artificial fiber spinning and applications. Through a long process of trial and error, great progress has been made in recent years. The natural fiber itself, especially silks, and the formation mechanism are better understood, and some of the essential factors are implemented in artificial spinning methods, benefiting from advanced manufacturing technologies. In addition, fiber-based materials produced via bioinspired spinning methods find an increasingly wide range of biomedical, optoelectronic, and environmental engineering applications. This paper reviews recent developments in the spinning and application of bioinspired fiber systems, introduces natural fiber and spinning processes and artificial spinning methods, and discusses applications of artificial fiber materials. Views on remaining challenges and the perspective on future trends are also proposed.

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Spinning and Applications of Bioinspired Fiber Systems

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“…The major events discussed appear to relate to the recorded droughts in the 1890s, in 1906, 1914/15, 1941, 1972, 1982/83, and 1988. Pratt (1906) reported extensive droughts from the Port Moresby area: Some information exists to indicate a severe drought, accompanied by forest fires, probably in 1885 (Johns, 1986).…”

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The Influence of Drought on Tropical Rainforest Vegetation in Papua New Guinea

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“…Pratt's plan to visit New Guinea had been derailed by his trips to South America but he never lost sight of 'the extraordinary value of Papua to the man of science, particularly to the entomologist and the ornithologist', and it remained his ultimate goal (Pratt and Pratt, 1906, George Bethune-Baker (1857-1944 and Sir George Kenrick , private entomological collectors, commissioned him to collect Lepidoptera on the island; and Ellen Willmott , the wealthy owner of magnificent gardens at Warley Place in Essex, also provided support. With funding secured, Pratt and his son Harry, now 16, embarked for New Guinea in January 1902.…”

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