Two persons are required for the operation, which is always performed in a place on which the sun beats strongly, while at the same time it is sheltered from the wind by surrounding rocks.
Deer are caught in snares fastened to a bent tree, so that the animal's foot is held, while the tree when released hoists the quarry up.

The Indians also chase deer with dogs toward some narrow passage in the track where they have placed sharp-pointed pine sticks, two feet long, against which the deer runs and hurts itself.

Blackbirds are decoyed by kernels of corn threaded on a snare of pita fibre hidden under the ground.

The bird swallows the kernel, which becomes entangled in its oesophagus and is caught.

Small birds are also shot with bow and arrows, or killed with stones.
The Tarahumare is ingenious in devising many kinds of traps for birds and animals.