The Study of ManG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898 - 410 pages |
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Page 82
... plays a great , and , politically , often an inconvenient part in the history of the world , finds forcible ex- pression in the Vedic descriptions of the people whom the Aryans found in possession of the plains of India . In a well ...
... plays a great , and , politically , often an inconvenient part in the history of the world , finds forcible ex- pression in the Vedic descriptions of the people whom the Aryans found in possession of the plains of India . In a well ...
Page 174
... played by children have a very varied origin , and a similarly unequal value to the student . Before we consider the games played by our children it is desirable to glance at those played by savages . The children of savages play at the ...
... played by children have a very varied origin , and a similarly unequal value to the student . Before we consider the games played by our children it is desirable to glance at those played by savages . The children of savages play at the ...
Page 175
... played on horseback . The Byzantine court adopted from the East the playing on horseback and the racket , but introduced these into a game resembling the ancient " ball - battle . " The historian Cinnamus describes the Emperor Manuel ...
... played on horseback . The Byzantine court adopted from the East the playing on horseback and the racket , but introduced these into a game resembling the ancient " ball - battle . " The historian Cinnamus describes the Emperor Manuel ...
Page 176
... played equally by adults and children , whether savage or civilised . Mr. Stewart Culin , who has made the study of games a specialty , and who has written a valuable and beautifully illustrated work on the subject , from which I have ...
... played equally by adults and children , whether savage or civilised . Mr. Stewart Culin , who has made the study of games a specialty , and who has written a valuable and beautifully illustrated work on the subject , from which I have ...
Page 179
... played by girls . The figures , which are the same as in our own child- ren's play , are named as follows : ( 1 ) cover for hearse , ( 2 ) chess - board , ( 3 ) chop - sticks , ( 4 ) cow's eyeball , ( 5 ) rice - mill pestle . " In Japan ...
... played by girls . The figures , which are the same as in our own child- ren's play , are named as follows : ( 1 ) cover for hearse , ( 2 ) chess - board , ( 3 ) chop - sticks , ( 4 ) cow's eyeball , ( 5 ) rice - mill pestle . " In Japan ...
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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