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Either natural conditions for enclosure must be available or enclosures must be created.
Nets, which are light and allow flexible use, or the above-mentioned funnel-shaped
enclosures made of stones are helpful.

Hendrickx states in 2010:
“Hunting as well as the keeping of hunting dogs had been reserved for the elite, as dogs were

important in hunting scenes and also in reality, as dog burials in important tombs prove”
[42].

Hendrickx, Eyckerman say in 2012:

“Interestingly, the results of the hunt, in the form of dead animals, or the anecdotal
description of the hunt are never shown. In two vessels in Turin ... marked with white
intersecting lines, the hunters armed with bows are followed by a number of captured desert
animals, suggesting that it was more important to show the hunters with animals they
controlled than to actually kill them. This also explains why lassoing, which allowed the

animals to stay alive, is the only type of hunting depicted more or less anecdotally in the
Hierakonpolis tomb painting and on the 'hunter's palette'. The transport of captured
animals from the desert to the settlements will not have gone unnoticed, but on the contrary

confirmed the social prestige of the hunters involved” [43].

Hunter's Palette, Naqada III © The Trustees of the British Museum