Gàbia enganadora (decoy cage)

What is

Cage prepared so that birds enter attracted by the bait or lure inside and then cannot leave (DCVB, Mall., Men.).

How is

• Cage made of slats or bars with an entrance that closes or a passage that does not allow return (exact mechanism in Mallorca, to be verified).
• Menjadora: small drawer for grain inside the cage (DCVB).

How is fa

• Cane, wood and wire; domestic work or basket weavers (to verify).

Com s'usa

• It is placed with bait or with a live decoy bird.
• Together with the filats d'abeurada (Mall.): net hidden underground next to a drinker, which is triggered with bars when the birds come down (DCVB).

Vocabulary

• gàbia enganadora — trap cage (Mall., Men.).
• claim — bird or sound that attracts others.
• menjadora — feeder.
• filats d'abeurada — drinking fountain network (Mall.).
• «Totes ses dones que hi ha / són gàbies enganadores» — Majorcan popular song (DCVB).
• gàbia (Wall) — set of arms and crossbar of a single-animal plow.
• gàbia — form of open almond tree pruning (DCVB).

History

• 1358: the king orders "a gàbie de ferre" to be made to imprison the infant of Mallorca (BSAL, DCVB).
• Today: the capture of birds with traps is restricted (regulations, to be verified).

On veure'n

• To verify in ethnological collections.

Why is it design

• Design of deception: easy entry, impossible exit.
• The word jumps to the song: the object becomes a loving metaphor.

For the project

• Next to llosa and Coll de Tords : “Majorcan traps” system for an explanatory piece.

Sources

• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=g%E0bia
• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=filat
• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=menjadora

Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.

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