304 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



At Simbo, in the Solomons, Mr. N. Hardy tells me he saw a 

 globular leaf ball tossed from hand to hand. 



Spinning tops I found to be a popular amusement on Nukulailai. 

 Their tops were simply cone shells (Conus hebraeus and C. puli- 

 carius) spun on their apices. A game was to spin two shells into a 

 wooden dish out of which by rotating and colliding the winner 

 would knock the loser. The shells were spun either like a teetotum 

 between the finger and thumb, or, to give greater force, the 

 anterior end was steadied by the finger and thumb of the left 

 hand, while the impetus was given by drawing the right fore- 

 finger briskly across it, as shown in fig. 79. A shell of C. hebraeus 

 I purchased, the broken lip of which betokened much service, was 

 called " vaitalo." 



Fig. 78. Fig. 79. Fig. 80. 



On Funafuti, a sort of toy windmill was contrived by plaiting 

 four arms of palm pinnule, mounting this on a stand of palm 

 riblet, and thrusting the latter into the sand, The wind would 

 then rotate the arms. This toy, called "bekka," is shown at 

 fig. 80. 



Mr. J. S. Gardiner tells me that he saw this toy windmill in 

 Rotumah, and it has been lately recorded from the Solomons by 

 Lieut. B. T. Somerville, R.K* 



ADDENDUM. 



Sandals. Since revising the preceding pages (243-4) dealing 

 with the Pacific sandal, I have seen a figure and description of 

 an interesting sandal of Cordyline fibre from New Zealand by 

 Mr. O. T. Mason, f Another article is thus added to the long 

 list of those common to every main division of the Polynesian 

 Race. It is interesting also to note that this Ethnologist detects 

 in the border loops for the lacing a similarity between the Poly- 

 nesian and a Korean pattern. 



* Journ. Anthrop. Inst., xxvi., 1897, p. 409. 



f Mason Primitive Travel and Transportation, Report U.S. National 

 Museum, 1894 (1896), p. 315. 



