Pig Trap Charm. Tuntun

The tuntun is a measuring rod to determine the correct height of a trip wire and of the strike of the blade of a hunting spring trap, to kill pigs and deer. On its top a divinity is sitting in squatting position. During a particular ceremony, the tuntun was animated by the represented deity who had the function to call the spirit of the animal from the heavenly world to catch him in the trap. The cylindrical body of the tuntun is tuned by a division into three segments which soften the verticality of the stick and accentuate the formal aspect.