Old time Hawaiians and their work . s a longlevel track about three feet wide. The pahce was a bluntdart of heavy wood a foot or more in length. One game was to send it between two sticks placed three or four inches apart, and another Hawaiian Weapon game was to throw or rather slide it as far as was played upon a similar kahua with a pol-ished stone called the 2ilu-maika. This stone was circu-lar, thicker in the center so that it would roll well. Onegame was to roll it between sticks wiiich were thirty orforty yards away. Sometimes the players rolled it asfar as possible, the b
Old time Hawaiians and their work . s a longlevel track about three feet wide. The pahce was a bluntdart of heavy wood a foot or more in length. One game was to send it between two sticks placed three or four inches apart, and another Hawaiian Weapon game was to throw or rather slide it as far as was played upon a similar kahua with a pol-ished stone called the 2ilu-maika. This stone was circu-lar, thicker in the center so that it would roll well. Onegame was to roll it between sticks wiiich were thirty orforty yards away. Sometimes the players rolled it asfar as possible, the best ones making a distance of aboutone hundred rods. After a game the ulu-maika wascarefully dried andwrapped in tapa. Konane was alittle like checkers,only more checkers wereblack and whitepebbles, and thepapamtc or boardwas usually ofstone, with indentations for the squares. Kamehameha Iwas fond of this game, and often played for hours at atime without saying a word. He was so skillful that noone could win from Newa, or Device for tripping up ax Enemy GAMES 89 In war the Hawaiians fought with spears, daggers,and sHngs. Usually it was in a hand-to-hand warlike games of boxing, wrestling, and hurlingjavelins and stones made them agile and alert. Once 1 _<r^^^--^ ^ g^l Kil ^^pj ^If 1 ^P t-^d^^^^^^^^H %A ^^?p^ .-*-***5 J^iaP KaMEHAMEHA at SlKAR rRACTlCK. (FkOM ) IAIMINC) six spears were thrown at Kamehameha I at the sametime. He caught three, warded off two, and dodged thelast one. Children had many games of their own much like thegames which you enjoy. They played with jackstonesand flew kites. Panapana was played by bending the 90 OLD-TIME HAWAIIANS AND THEIR WORK midrib of a coconut leaf into a bow and then letting itsnap as far as possible. Boys often turned somersaultsin the grass or on the sand. They could tie manykinds of knots, and played a game called Jiei that waslike cats cradle. REVIEW How are games good for people ? What d
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