Context (CMS Context)
Card reads: " Object found at the end of the clearance of the Andrews Gallery' s cupboard. It may refer to this number. May 1986" Collected by: Skeat.W.W in : Made with the prickly tips of the growing shoots of the rattan in which big fish are caught by the scales. They are baited with fruit eg. ' jelatok' or (..) ridoi' or ' (..) Kerayong' or ' petai' fruit which, except in the case of the fruits of the Kerayong and jelatok - which require to be boiled if too freshly gathered, and tightly fixed in the narrow upper end ' pantat' of the trap. The fish eating at the mouth of the trap ' mulut' is caught and held on the prickles of the ' onak' ? The ' Krai' and ' kelai' , the ' temeralan' , the ' kejau' and ' tengas' are the fish generally caught. The trap is fastened with a long rattan (cane) line to a tree or tree stump near the bank (' Chenggong')). A stone is tied to the pantat, outside, and the trap is sunk. Or else it is tied with a short line so as to float, (In which case the) bait is of leaves of the ' ara' (ficus) ' birah' (or ' ubi Kayu' , but this is for ' ikan Kaloi' Kaloi-fish only)
Event Date 17/12/1986
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Funnel shaped fish traps
Event Date 17/12/1986
Author: maa