 Malay boys have little inclination for active sports and games, which form quite a feature in the life of the Dyak youths; who, besides outdoor games of skill and strength, possess a variety of indoor amusements. One wet day in a Dyak house, when a number...  String Figures: A Study of Cat's-cradle in Many Lands - Page xby Caroline Furness Jayne - 1906 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Ethnology - 1869 - 694 pages
...thought to amuse CHARACTER. 99 them with something new, and showed them how to make " cat's cradle " with a piece of string. Greatly to my surprise, they...string, which seemed a favorite amusement with them. Even these apparently trifling matters may assist us to form a truer estimate of the Dyaks' character... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Ethnology - 1869 - 360 pages
...about me, I thought to amuse them with something new, and showed them how' to make " cat's cradle" with a piece of string. Greatly to my surprise, they...other tricks with pieces of string, which seemed a favourite amusement with them. Even these apparently trifling matters may assist us to form a truer... | |
 | Henry Ling Roth, Hugh Brooke Low - Borneo - 1896 - 506 pages
...about me, I thought to amuse them with something new, and showed them how to make ' cat's cradle ' with a piece of string. Greatly to my surprise, they...and made several new figures which quite puzzled me. Then they showed me a number of other tricks with pieces of string, which seemed a favourite amusement... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 674 pages
...outdoor games of skill and strength, possess a variety of indoor amusements. One wet day in a Dyak house, when a number of boys and young men were about me,...knew all about it, and more than I did ; for after Charles and I had gone through all the changes we could make, one of the boys took it off my hand,... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon - Anthropology - 1898 - 470 pages
...about me, I thought to amuse them with something new, and showed them how to make ' cat's cradle ' with a piece of string. Greatly to my surprise, they...other tricks with pieces of string, which seemed a favourite amusement with them." Lieutenant de Crespigny' writes of the Dusuns of Borneo: " Near me... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 450 pages
...outdoor games of skill and strength, possess a variety of indoor amusements. One wet day in a Dyak house, when a number of boys and young men were about me,...knew all about it, and more than I did ; for after Charles and I had gone through all the changes we could make, one of the boys took it off my hand,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 752 pages
...outdoor games of skill and strength, possess a variety of indoor amusements. One wet day in a Dyak house, when a number of boys and young men were about me,...knew all about it, and more than I did; for after Charles and I had gone through all the changes we could make, one of the boys took it off my hand,... | |
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