Image Title:
Giraffe: Section showing form of pit

Note:
“The pitfalls . . . are tolerable large, but not very deep, because the size and weight of the prisoners prevent them from making their escape. Moreover, a stout stake, some five feet or more in length, and sharpened at the top, is place in the middle of the pit, so that the animal falls upon it and is impaled” [Wood p.134]

Source:
Wood, J. G. 1868. The Natural History of Man; Being an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Uncivilized Races of Men Vol. I. London: G. Routledge and Sons, p.134. Book at Archive.org.

Subject:
Hunting - Africa - Giraffes - Pitfall - Section - Stake - Impaled

Date:
1868

Rights:
Public Domain

Image:
SA-HUNT-11

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