Bamboo bird trap
Maker
Unknown Maker
Description
In 1974 Waikato Museum acquired a selection of items, including this bamboo bird trap, from Graham Jackson. Jackson was a New Zealand anthropologist who spent time living with and researching the Kopon and the Kalam people of the Lower Kaironk Valley in Papua New Guinea.
Jackson fieldnotes: Women's bamboo bird trap. Various objects made with this technique from bamboo are called as as (this does not imply being funnel shaped and made from one piece of bamboo as this object is). This as as has been used as a bird trap. It may be set up over the nest of rwry (Ducula zoeae) and dropped down over it when it returns to the nest. It may also be used to store food in, in which case it may be called habw gw. The term habw is used of marrows and other things with a belly shaped roundness, and often used as containers. Probably manufactured by males only.
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