Old time Hawaiians and their work . Ulu-Maika There are in these islands many steep hills coveredwith long slippery grass. Most of us know what fun it is to slide down them uponti leaves. In olden times asled called the papa hohiawas used on prepared coursesor slides called holiia. Thereis one in the Bishop Museumwhich shows you how verylong and how very narrowsuch a sled was. It tookmuch practice to keep onesbalance upon it. In making ready to slide,the person stood back of the brow of the hill, the sledheld by the side piece withhis right hand. He ranswiftly to the beginningof the slide, the
Old time Hawaiians and their work . Ulu-Maika There are in these islands many steep hills coveredwith long slippery grass. Most of us know what fun it is to slide down them uponti leaves. In olden times asled called the papa hohiawas used on prepared coursesor slides called holiia. Thereis one in the Bishop Museumwhich shows you how verylong and how very narrowsuch a sled was. It tookmuch practice to keep onesbalance upon it. In making ready to slide,the person stood back of the brow of the hill, the sledheld by the side piece withhis right hand. He ranswiftly to the beginningof the slide, then graspedthe other side with hisleft hand, fell flat uponthe board, steadied him-self with his feet upon theback crosspiece, and shotheadforemost down theholua, sometimes a dis-tance of half a mile. PMhenehene was the fa-vorite game of the nobility. Sling. GAMES Sy Sometimes they played it for days at a time. Fivebundles of tapa were placed in a row, and the players,divided Into two parties, took their places upon oppositesides of the bundles. A player hid a stone under one ofthe bundles, while his opponents watched the musclesof his arm and guessed where the stone was hid. Each
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