Handbook to the ethnographical collections (1910) (14782992712)

Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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Fio. 114.—Dancing club. Santa Cruz Group. Scaie y games; athletic amusements, such as running and wrestling(Fiji), a kind of football (New Hebrides), surf-riding with a board,and hide and seek (Banks Islands), throwing and dodging spears(Tasmania and Solomon Islands) are more appreciated by theadults ; various familiar forms of toys such as tops (Solomons,New Guinea, Torres Straits) and kites (New Hebrides and Banks
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Fi<;. 11.5.—Crocodile-shaped dnuii from Orokolo, British New Guinea. Islands) are al.-:o found. A game called lavo^ with discs anda board, is played in Fiji, and the //V/c, is found in that island, inthe New Heljrides. and in the Banks Island.s. The Vuia is a reedshaft with a pointed head of heavy wood ; it is thrown Ijy hand,the object l)eing to attain the greatest distance. Cat.s-cradle is almost universal. Dancing is, of course, every-where practised ; the dances are often mimetic, and in those per-formed on ceremonial occasions ma.sks (PI. VII, figs. :U, 113 and 136 OCEANIA