Importance of Falconry equipment

Falconry equipment is used by Sam, Perry Knowlton, Bate, Spud, Skri, and Jon and Susan Wood. Falconry equipment consists of tethers, hoods, and jesses, all designed to help people raise and train falcons for various purposes, or to subdue them as is in the case of Bate, Spud, and Skri. Sam comes to understand that Frightful and Oski can live on his mountain of their own free will, provided they are not kept there by falconry equipment, or against their will.