. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. B Fig. 63. Traps for cane rats. A. Mothema, SAM-9862, Krige Collection, 1936-8. B. Wire mothema, Modjadji's village, 1973. A modern version of the mothema is made in wire (Fig. 63B). The opening of the trap has a flap that opens inward only so that the animal gets caught in- side and cannot escape. A trap, khethedele (Fig. 64), for birds consisted of a ring of wood (a pliable stick bent into a circle and tied with bark) with a mesh of bark strips tied across it. Slip-knots made of the tail hair of an
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. B Fig. 63. Traps for cane rats. A. Mothema, SAM-9862, Krige Collection, 1936-8. B. Wire mothema, Modjadji's village, 1973. A modern version of the mothema is made in wire (Fig. 63B). The opening of the trap has a flap that opens inward only so that the animal gets caught in- side and cannot escape. A trap, khethedele (Fig. 64), for birds consisted of a ring of wood (a pliable stick bent into a circle and tied with bark) with a mesh of bark strips tied across it. Slip-knots made of the tail hair of an ox were attached to the cross-strips and the trap was covered with a thin layer of soil so that only the knots of hair were. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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