 | Ernst Dieffenbach - 1843 - 416 páginas
...top, called kaihora, nicely formed and managed as it is by us, supplies another of their amusements. In the game of Maui they are great proficients. This...varieties of houses, canoes, or figures of men and women are imagined to be represented. Maui, the Adam of New Zealand, left this amusement to them as an inheritance.... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon - 1898 - 470 páginas
..." In the game of Maui they are great proficients. This is a game like that called ' cat's cradle ' in Europe, and consists of very complicated and perplexing...varieties of houses, canoes, or figures of men and women are imagined to be represented. Maui, the Adam of New Zealand, left this amusement to them as an inheritance."... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon - 1898 - 468 páginas
..." In the game of Afjui they are great proficients. Thii is a game like that called ' cat's cradle ' in Europe, and consists of very complicated and perplexing...their ancient traditions, and in the different figures whith the cord is made to assume, whilst held on both hands, the outlines of their different varieties... | |
 | Dominion Museum (N.Z.) - 1925 - 510 páginas
...writes: — "In the game of maui they are great proficients. This is a game like that called cat's cradle in Europe, and consists of very complicated and perplexing...varieties of houses, canoes, or figures of men and women are imagined to be represented." The Rev. R. Taylor gives the following in Te Ika a Maui: — "Cat's... | |
 | William Drake Westervelt - 1910 - 240 páginas
...game of Maui they are great proficients. It is a game like that called cat's cradle in Europe. It is intimately connected with their ancient traditions...cord is made to assume whilst held on both hands, the outline of their different varieties of houses, canoes or figures of men and women are imagined to... | |
 | Elsdon Best - 1925 - 512 páginas
...writes: — "In the game of maui they are great proficients. This is a game like that called cat's cradle in Europe, and consists of very complicated and perplexing...varieties of houses, canoes, or figures of men and women are imagined to be represented." The Rev. R. Taylor gives the following in Te Ika a Maui: — "Cat's... | |
 | Caroline F. Jayne - 1962 - 476 páginas
...resting-place (in stone) of the famous rat that saved the human family from starvation when the god Makalii hung up the food in a net to a cloud in the heavens....varieties of houses, canoes, or figures of men and women are imagined to be represented. Maui, the Adam of New Zealand, left this amusement to them as an inheritance."... | |
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In the game of Maui they are great proficients. This is a game like that called cat's-cradle in Europe, and consists of very complicated and perplexing puzzles with a cord tied together at the ends. It seems to be intimately connected with their ancient... 