Their daughter, Hine-titama, also bore Tane's children, not Knowing that he was her own father.
But in fact, Mr. Hine -who cared about human labor in an increasingly mechanized world -posed this man in order to make the portrait.
According to Stuart Hine, spider expert at the Natural History Museum, the largest domestic spider is "the Tegenaria parietina, or cardinal spider, reputed to have bitten Cardinal Wolsey.
