How to Build a Takuliang ka itu Vihit (Tilong) Rat Trap (西拉雅族的捕鼠器)

In this video I show you how to make and set up a takuliang ka itu vihit in the style of the Siraya and Pingpu indigenous people of Taiwan.

A variation of the trap commonly known as the tilong, the takuliang ka itu vihit (rat trap in the Siraya language*) is a snare trap designed to catch rats & mice. There are already quite a few videos online on how to build this type of trap, but I haven't found any tutorials of how to build one specifically in the style of the Siraya. There are actually very few of this specific style of trap left in Taiwan and the two shown at the beginning of the video were really the only ones I was able to locate.
*Special thanks to Edgar L. Macapili for helping to give this trap a name in Siraya!

Time Key:
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Building Trap Components - Cutting Bamboo Tube
4:06 Building Trap Components - Spring Limb
12:25 Building Trap Components - Limb Fitting Hole
15:45 Building Trap Components - Trigger Hole
17:11 Building Trap Components - String Holes
20:11 Building Trap Components - String Stick
21:55 Building Trap Components - Trigger
25:38 Assembly of the Trap - Noose
27:23 Assembly of the Trap - String Stick to Noose
28:25 Assembly of the Trap - Fitting the Limb
29:45 Assembly of the Trap - Noose String to Limb
32:03 Assembly of the Trap - Holding String
33:37 Assembly of the Trap - Attaching the trigger
38:45 Setting the Trap
39:57 Outro

Playlist of Indigenous Taiwanese Traps:
   • Formosan Trapping  

Playlist of Tilong videos that helped me learn to make this trap:    • Плейлист