Bird Snare or Perch (mutu kaka)
- Title
- Bird Snare or Perch (mutu kaka)
- Description
- This object was used as a bird trap and Maori hunters would install these objects near certain trees. Maori hunters would connect a cord to the object that could be activated from a distance, and when the cord was pulled the bird would be captured by its feet without damaging the bird's feathers because certain feathers from birds were highly valued items.
- Semester
- Spring 2026
- Subject
- Indigenous Art
- Morton D. May
- Saint Louis Art Museum
- Maori
- 18th to 19th century
- Temporal Coverage
- 18th to 19th Century
- Spatial Coverage
- New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Language
- The information about the item is in English
- Medium
- The object is made out of wood and plant fiber
- Is Part Of
- Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
- Morton D. May
- Identifier
- 1560:1983
- Provenance
-
1981
Ancestral Arts, Honolulu, HI, USA -
1981 - 1983
Morton D. May (1914-1983), St. Louis, MO, purchased from Ancestral Arts -
1983
Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Morton D. May - Explanation of Omeka Map Location
- This item originated in New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Media
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