The Study of ManG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898 - 410 pages |
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Page 174
... boys will have their toy bows and arrows ; where the natives spear fish , boys and girls will have toy fishing - spears , with which they attempt to catch fish . They play with toy canoes , and so forth . Even when the adults have ...
... boys will have their toy bows and arrows ; where the natives spear fish , boys and girls will have toy fishing - spears , with which they attempt to catch fish . They play with toy canoes , and so forth . Even when the adults have ...
Page 176
... boys . There are other games which may be regarded as being more purely diversional in character , as , for example , cer- tain of the games of ball and numerous other simple amuse- ments . Many of these are played equally by adults and ...
... boys . There are other games which may be regarded as being more purely diversional in character , as , for example , cer- tain of the games of ball and numerous other simple amuse- ments . Many of these are played equally by adults and ...
Page 180
... boys and young men were about me , I thought to amuse them with some- thing new , and showed them how to make ' cat's cradle ' with a piece of string . Greatly to my surprise , they knew all about it , and more than I did , for , after ...
... boys and young men were about me , I thought to amuse them with some- thing new , and showed them how to make ' cat's cradle ' with a piece of string . Greatly to my surprise , they knew all about it , and more than I did , for , after ...
Page 182
... boy playing with a piece of string , the two ends of which were tied together , in much the same manner as our children play at cat's cradle . The first figure that he made with it was precisely the same as our cradle , " but the ...
... boy playing with a piece of string , the two ends of which were tied together , in much the same manner as our children play at cat's cradle . The first figure that he made with it was precisely the same as our cradle , " but the ...
Page 190
... boy , adding his name and the date of his birth . The inscription is written along the bamboo frame , so that it may not be readily seen by any one who might be tempted to pick up the kite . The boys tie a piece of sulphur paper on the ...
... boy , adding his name and the date of his birth . The inscription is written along the bamboo frame , so that it may not be readily seen by any one who might be tempted to pick up the kite . The boys tie a piece of sulphur paper on the ...
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A. C. Haddon ancient Anth anthropology Aryan Australia Badagas Beddoe block-wheel blond boys brachycephalic Brahmans breadth bridge British Islands brown bull-roarer called cat's cradle century cephalic cephalic index character chariot Collignon colour Corrèze cranial index craniology Creuse Culin custom dance dark district dolichocephals Dordogne dress E. B. Tylor England English Europe evidence evolution example fair fair lady Folk-lore France girls Gomme hand Haute-Vienne head inches Inst Ireland Irish J. G. Frazer jaunting-car Jenny Jones Journ kite kite-flying lady latter length leptorhine Malay means measurements mesorhine narrow nasal index Neolithic North nose origin Paniyans photographs platyrhine played points primitive probably race round sacred savage says side singing skull slide-car song spoke-wheels stature Stewart Culin string tion Torres Straits tribes vehicles village wheels women wood