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��HAWAIIAN GAMES

By STEWART CULIN INTRODUCTION

The new materials of this paper were collected from four Hawaiian sailors, from Honolulu, named Aka (Kamehameha), Daviese Kahimoku, Welakahao, and Hale Paka (Harry Park), and verified by means of Andrews' Hawaiian Dictionary. 1 These have been supplemented by information from other sources " and by a few notes on similar games in other islands, 1 the object

1 Honolulu, 1865.

William Ellis, Polynesian Researches, London, 1853. Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., Narrative of the U. S. Exploring Expedition during the Years 1833-/842, Philadel- phia, 1845. H. Carrington Bolton, Some Hawaiian Pastimes {Journal of American Folk-lore, vol. iv. No. 21). W. D. Alexander, A Brief History of the Hawaiian People* N. Y., 1871. Wm. T. Brigham, Preliminary Catalogue of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum* Honolulu, 1892.
 * Peter Corney, Voyages in the Northern Pacific (1813-1818), Honolulu, 1896.

• Rev. John B. Stair, Old Samoa, or Floatsam and Jetsam from the Pacific Ocean, London, 1897. Thomas Williams and James Calvert, Fiji and the Fijians, N. Y., 1859. R. Taylor, Te ika a maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, Lon- don, 1855. Ernest Dieffenbach, Travels in New Zealand, London, 1843. R- H. Codrington, The Melanesians, Studies in their Anthropology and Folk-lore, Oxford, 1 891. In addition the writer desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to that most suggestive paper by Dr E. B. Tylor : " Remarks on the Geographical Distribution of Games** in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. IX, 1879, and to the chapters on *' Toys and Games" in Prof. A. C. Haddon's valuable work, The Study of Man, 1898.

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