Head-hunters, black, white, and brown

by Alfred C. Haddon

Bariva derempto derempto

Mota tim

Bariba tim

Pekuluoa waiau—o.”

This sounds like a challenge, and immediately the rhyme is finished, the central boy rushes at the joined hands of any two boys and tries to burst through. The game is finished when he succeeds.

Korikini. Some half-dozen boys sit in a circle very close together; each holds the first or index finger of his hands upwards, closing the thumb and other fingers of one hand on the extended index of the other, or on that of another boy; in this way a column of hands is made, the uppermost having its free index finger pointing upwards. One boy alone has his right hand disengaged; with the forefinger he taps the uppermost index finger crosswise. The following is sung during the operation:—

Korikini korikini, papa raurirauri marire

Stick up finger crossing one another

Agiana korikoana karigămuai.

I look take away finger under armpit.