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Bird Call Shaft

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Object Number:P427A
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. 36View 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. 70View 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. 5View Objects related to this Type Citation

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