. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. y green pole at right anglesto its length ; the pole is laid horizontally, one endof it being firmly fixed to a tree, and the other(that carrying the spear) bent forcibly backwardsand held back by a loop of rattan. This spring isset by means of an ingenious trigger, in such a waythat an animal passing through the gap must pushagainst a string attached to the trigger, and sorelease the spring, which then drives the bamboospear across the gap with great
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. y green pole at right anglesto its length ; the pole is laid horizontally, one endof it being firmly fixed to a tree, and the other(that carrying the spear) bent forcibly backwardsand held back by a loop of rattan. This spring isset by means of an ingenious trigger, in such a waythat an animal passing through the gap must pushagainst a string attached to the trigger, and sorelease the spring, which then drives the bamboospear across the gap with great force. (Thedrawing (Fig. 22) will make clear the nature ofthe trigger.) In one variety of this trap the spring is setvertically. The trap is varied in other ways. Acurious practice of the I bans on setting such a trapis to measure the appropriate height of the spear bymeans of a rod surmounted with a carving of ahuman figure (Fig. 23). VOL. I L 146 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO Of many ingenious traps forsmall animals the jerat is themost widely used (see Fig. 24and PI. 85). A rude fence somehundreds of yards, in somecases as much as a mile, in. length, is made by filling upwith sticks and brushwood thespaces between the trees andundergrowth of the jungle. Atintervals of ten or twenty yardsnarrow gaps are left, and in eachof these a jerat is set to catchthe small creatures that, in i# Fig. 23.
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