146 PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO 



Of many ingenious traps for 

 small animals the jerat is the 

 most widely used (see Fig. 24 

 and PI. 85). A rude fence some 

 hundreds of yards, in some 

 cases as much as a mile, in 



length, is made by filling up 

 with sticks and brushwood the 

 spaces between the trees and 

 undergrowth of the jungle. At 

 intervals of ten or twenty yards 

 narrow gaps are left, and in each 

 of these a jerat is set to catch 

 the small creatures that, in 



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Fig. 23. 



