Mousetrap
82-7-74
From: Thailand | Udon Thani | Ban Thung Fon
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Native Name | Kap Top | กับตบ | Suea Top Kon | เสือตบก้น |
| Object Number | 82-7-74 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Thai | Isaan |
| Provenience | Thailand | Udon Thani | Ban Thung Fon |
| Site Name | Ban Thung Fon | บ้านทุ่งฝน |
| Date Made | 1900-1981 |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | String | Bamboo |
| Subject | Trapping Equipment |
| Description | An old style mouse trap usually placed in the house but sometimes in the fields for Rattus rattus (nu thong khao หนูท้องขาว). It is made of two thick pieces of bowed bamboo tied at the ends with string. There is another round piece of bamboo at the center of the bow which has three small holes in it and a long extended sort of runway. |
| Length | 76.5 cm |
| Width | 40 cm |
| Credit Line | Thai-Lao Ethnographic Expedition, Joyce C. White, 1981 |
| Other Number | 143 - Field Number |
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