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Samoan Material Culture

Nets

Nets

Flying fox net. In Tutuila, near Malaeloa, the flying fox (pe'a) was caught in a fowling net with a long handle. The bats lived in a tree down the side of a cliff. In the evening when they went out to feed, they flew up over the cliff and passed through a narrow defile. In this defile, the hunter watched near the cliff. As the flying foxes came up over the edge they were fairly close to the ground. The hunter then intercepted them with the net which he swung (seu) in the manner of netting pigeons (seu lupe). The method was, therefore, termed seu pe'a and is purely local.