Identifier: historyofmankind01ratz (find matches)
Title: The history of mankind
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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e our draughts, but appears to be more complicated,since the board has 238 squares, divided into rows of fourteen. Anotherconsists in hiding a stone in a piece of cloth, and trying to find it by hittingwith a stick ; in this game the betting is the important point. Ball-games arevery popular. In the Hawaiian game called Lain, a wheel-shaped stone (Maika),is thrown as far as possible ; and players stake all their property, their wives andchildren, their arm and leg bones (after their death), and at last even theirown persons on one throw. Another pastime is racing between boys andgirls. Swimming in the surf with the help of a board or spar is also insome measure a game of chance ; it is played, especially in Hawaii, by 1 (Mr. Stevenson mentions somewhere that cricket-matches in Samoa used to be played by whole villages,some hundreds on a side, and to last for weeks. At length the waste of time and cost of entertaining the visitors reached such a pitch that the chiefs had to interfere.)
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Printed by Ehe Bibliographischfis Institut. Leipzig. PATTERN OF POLYNESIAN TAPA. (From Cooks collection in the etlmographical Museum, Vienna.! THE POLYNESIANS AND MICRONESIANS 195 both sexes with much dexterity and pluck. Little boats are a frequent toyof children ; who also, like their elders, are fond of ball-play. The youngNew Zealanders have a special predilection for flying kites. Another gameof theirs is to throw up a ball made of leaves bound together, and catchit on a stick sharpened at both ends. Besides these, games with the fingers,like the Italian morra, are very common ; and the players are extremely cleverat them. § 4. DRESS, WEAPONS, AND IMPLEMENTS OF POLYNESIANS AND MICRONESIANS Dress and ornament—Tattooing—Deformations of the body—Feather ornaments—Modes of wearing the hair—Objects used for ornament—Bark cloth—Tapa—Mats—Weapons and implements—Lack of iron—Working in stone—Manufacture of weapons from wood—Spears—Clubs—Limits of diffusion

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