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Sam Atchynia’s talks about the Traditional Wooden Trap.

The way we make a wooden trap is, we cover it like the way a beaver trap is made. We  use a strong tamarack branch and securely tie the bait on it, that’s the way my father made it. He uses the same kind of branch and carves it, he uses that as a lifter and places it higher than covers it. He lifts his obitsiman on one end and places it on the right side, than he raise it to higher level so it wouldn’t be covered with snow too fast. He lifts and places the two branches together, the one with the bait on it and the other one that’s used as a lifter. Than he puts some weight on it like a fresh log, but not to heavy. After that he leaves it like that. When the martin tries to get the branch with bait on it, the log turns and drops on him. Sometimes it drops right on his under arms or his neck, it tastes very good the way it’s killed.