The Play of Man

by Karl Groos

[260] Bastian, Die Völker des östlichen Asien, vol. iii, pp. 322, 324.

[261] Ibid.

[262] Ploss, Das Kind, vol. ii, p. 291.

[263] See A. Richter, Zur Geschichte des deutschen Kinderspieles. Westermanns Monatshefte, 1870.

[264] Rochholz, p. 421.

[265] Forbes, op. cit., vol. i, p. 234. See also vol. ii, p. 45, where a simpler game is described which is played by boys also, and is more like European quoits.

[266] Nordenskiöld, Die Umsegelung Asiens und Europas auf der Vega, Leipsic, 1881-’82, vol. i, p. 70.

[267] Gutsmuths, p. 69.

[268] Ibid., p. 198.

[269] A peculiar and difficult game of catching is played by the Gilbert Islanders. A light feather ornament is loosely attached to a stick which is thrown into the air. As the stick descends the ornament floats away, and the players’ task is to fish for it, as it were, with a stone fastened to a long line and bring it down. This game is called “Tabama.” R. Parkinson, Beiträge zur Ethnologie der Gilbert Insulaner.