Handbook to the ethnographical collections . 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. Fi<;. —Crocodile-shaped dnuii from Orokolo, British New Guinea. Islands) are :o found. A game called lavo^ with discs anda
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . 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. Fi<;. —Crocodile-shaped dnuii from Orokolo, British New Guinea. Islands) are :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 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. is almost universal. Dancing is, of course, every-where practised ; the dances are often mimetic, and in those per-formed on ceremonial occasions (PI. VII, figs. :U, 113 and 136 OCEANIA
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