. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. IBANS SETTING TRAPS FOR PHEASANTS AND SMALL Plate 85. PWNANS AT HOME. LIFE IN THE JUNGLE 149 peoples. Our few descriptions will serve toillustrate the ingenuity displayed, thecomplexity of the mechanical principlesinvolved in some of them, and the ex-treme simplicity of others. Previouswriters have described many of these indetail, and we content ourselves with re-ferring the curious reader to their ac-counts.^ The Klemantans and some of the
. The pagan tribes of Borneo; a description of their physical, moral and intellectual condition, with some discussion of their ethnic relations. IBANS SETTING TRAPS FOR PHEASANTS AND SMALL Plate 85. PWNANS AT HOME. LIFE IN THE JUNGLE 149 peoples. Our few descriptions will serve toillustrate the ingenuity displayed, thecomplexity of the mechanical principlesinvolved in some of them, and the ex-treme simplicity of others. Previouswriters have described many of these indetail, and we content ourselves with re-ferring the curious reader to their ac-counts.^ The Klemantans and some of theKenyahs catch a small ground pigeon(Chalcophaps indica) in large numbers bythe aid of a pipe or whistle, by blowingsoftly on which the cooing notes of thebird are closely imitated. The instrumentconsists of a piece of large bambooclosed at one end and having a small holeabout its middle (Fig. 25). The hunter,concealed behind a screen of leafy branches,blows across this hole through a longslender tube of bamboo ; and when a birdapproaches the whistle, he slips over itshead a fine noose attached to the end ofa light bamboo and, drawing it behindthe screen, puts it alive into a cage. Small parr
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