The native hunter all over Africa is an adept in the art of stalking game for when armed with a weapon having but a short range, he must get near enough to his quarry to make his shot certain.
In some parts of Northern Nigeria wooden head-dresses with horns like those of the antelope are worn.
The Hausa hunters were used to creeping about in the bush, naked, except for a loin-cloth, their feet even bare, with their bows and quivers of poisoned arrows.
There are large toucans (type of bird resembling the headgear) that can be found in the northern forests with a huge head and curved beak --- these birds make a considerable rustling in the Bush--- and the Hausa hunter has a wooden imitation of the head and neck, which he straps across his forehead.
He then bends in the grass, wags his head up and down to imitate the motions of a bird feeding. The deer, hearing a rustle, looks up but can only see the headgear.
To it, it is only a bird so it continues eating. By the time the deer realises that the bird is in fact human, the impact of the poisoned arrow would've penetrated it at a close range.
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