Comments on: How to carry your monkey home once you’ve killed it https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/ Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:01:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Clara B. Jones https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498959 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:01:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498959 Dr. Laden: Good point…thanks. clara jones

]]> By: feralboy12 https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498958 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:26:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498958 I carry my monkey on my back. And no, he can’t be killed.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498957 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:09:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498957 Clara, I don’t know of any other than Central African Pygmies, but it would not be strange to find it somewhere in the Amazon.

]]> By: Clara B. Jones https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498956 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:00:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498956 This is a terrific photo displaying a very clever method for transporting a monkey from the hunt. I wonder how many other traditional societies use this method to carry prey with tails?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498955 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:37:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498955 Jason: Well spotted!

An Efe man always carries “regular” arrows exactly like this, one or two arrows in the same “bunch” in the hand as the bow. It is symbolic and practical. The poison tipped monkey arrows are normally kept in a quiver untill you are about to go after the monkeys, then a handful are kept at the ready as this arrow is.

So even when monkey hunting with the disposable arrows, one would have metal-tipped arrows (probably in the quiver during the actual shoot-the-monkey phase.) The man’s arrows are always with him, maybe set on the ground or hung up somewhere in a quiver briefly, but never stored away. Even when monkey hunting, one can easily run into something else to shoot at.

Of course, that’s not his arrow. A man would never carry his own arrow. That would be absurd.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498954 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:33:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498954 Charles: That’s his real hair. Often, among folks in this area, reddish hair is a sign of prolonged protein deficiency, but this individual seemed pretty healthy.

]]> By: Jason https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498953 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:56:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498953 I’m curious about the arrow. It does not appear to be the simple, home-made non-recovered type used for monkey hunting as described in your last post on the subject.

]]> By: Charles Sullivan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498952 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:49:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/02/how-to-carry-your-monkey-home/#comment-498952 Is the man’s hair naturally red, or did he dye it?

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