Can you ID the spider from the vague description?

[Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]

OK, I think it was a spider, at least an arachnid, but here goes the description:

Color: the prosoma was black. The opisthosoma, orange and was sometimes carried up at a 90º angle. The terminal segments/joints of the front legs were a light, light orangish color. The rest were all black.

Body: Prosoma and opisthosoma were longish and roughly the same size. About as thick as a match and as long as my thumbnail ('bout ½ inch). The pedipalps looked really long. It seemed to walk like a *daddy-longlegs; i.e., with the joints of the legs higher than the body.

It was just ambling around on a vine. There was no evidence of a web.

Anyone??? I'm not an entymologist, and at times like this it really bugs me.

*Or like the mechanical spider on Jonny Quest that was operated by the evil Dr. Zin.