Bird Call Shaft

Object Number: | P427A |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Culture: | Kadayan |
Provenience: | Borneo Sarawak |
Section: | Oceanian |
Materials: | Bamboo |
Credit Line: | Gift of Dr. William H. Furness 3rd., 1898 |
Other Number: | 36 - Other Number P427AA - Old Museum Number |
Description
Long thin tube, lashed at an angle to a section of bamboo. The hunter blows through the tube, across a small hole in the bamboo, producing a whistling sound to lure the bird. Accordng to Hose, "The Klemantans and some of the Kanyahs catch a small ground pigeon (Chalcophaps indica) in large numbers by the aid of a pipe or whistle, by blowing softly on which the cooing notes of the bird are closely imitated . . . . when a bird approaches the whistly, he slips over its head a fine noose attached to the end of a light bamboo and . . . puts it alive into a cage."
Bibliography:
[Other] Furness, William H. Bornean Collection of W. H. Furness & H. M. Hiller Presented to the Museum of Archaeology and Paleontology.. pg. 1-9 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: No. 36 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Other] Culin, Robert S. CULIN'S LIST OF SPECIMENS EXHIBITED AT WISTAR May 1897.. pg. 1-4 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: No. 70 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Book] McDougall, William, and Hose, Charles. 1912. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo.. London. Macmillan and Company. Type Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Vol. I, p. 149 and Fig. 5 | View Objects related to this Type Citation |
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