Trapping Wildlife ~ 2.

Pu Sangkima in his "Essays on the History of the Mizos" (Spectrum Publications, 2004) talks of traps for wildlife in Mizoram while talking of Kuts in the chapter on "Social Life of the Mizos : Some Aspects.:

Kut is a Mizo word for festival or feast. Kut became one of the common features of the social life of the Mizo people. There were 3 kinds of kut: Mim kut, Pawl kut and Chapar kut. He further says that the Pawl kut (Pawl meaning straw) and Chapar kut were held immediately after the jhum (shifting cultivation) cutting (harvest) was over as a sort of harvest thanksgiving. During the feast each family prepared meat for which, a week before the occassion, "everyone went hunting by setting traps" and if they could not catch any other animals the family would kill some fowl.