Koryak people’s method of hunting bear in the Russian Far East. Bait is hung from a tree for the bear to climb and ensnare itself in the noose. Asian black bear, Ursus thibetanus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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