String Figures from the Marquesas and Society Islands

       update/MIS A JOUR 5/10/2006
 
 
 

         A METTRE DANS BASE DE DONNES ET A B C

 
 

      Amatara                                     90D
      Attachment of
           a breadfruit net
                           (piri kooka)            15D
    Axe (Opahi)                                   60D
    Back part of the house
              (Anatifaia)                           39D
    Bad man (Taata ino)                      85D
    Blooms the tiare flowers
                                   (Ua te tiare)    65D
    Bone of an eel
                            (Te ivi o tuna)        64D
    Bravado (tuare)                             83D  (sliding figure)
    Cluster of flies
     (Popo tikaue)                                44D
    Decayed (Eo)                                  40D
    Divide Raiatea into
                   fours, To
       (A mahara Raiatea) 58D
    Divide Taravao into
                         fours, To
      (A mahara Taravao) 59D
    Eel is lost (Tuna riro)                      89D  (deux personnes, pas
pour la figure
                        two players, not for the figure)

    Female turtle
            (Honu vahine)                        72D  5J06
         Male turtle (Honu tane)             72D

    Fish, Kind of (Ioio)                         86D (deux personnes/two players)
    Fish, The great ray
                                   (Hahaua)         48D  (deux personnes/two players)

    Fragrant plant,
      a kind of (Tataiahue)                    35D
        Native sons
                     (Na tama aina)               37D

   Hole for breadfruit paste,
       Great (Apoo mahai ahaana)        76D (85)  36GII  53B
           (Darsie Not working)
 17TII
 56Q (Eric) 20T
                   34XI 20W 88BISFA6
                   Richard
(see/voir ici/here)
  129XIV
          /Gated well76E
        /Gated well 173E
              Stone on Maupiti
     (Na ofai roroa i hamau)                77D
       Flying around of the
                 back hair of Ori
     (Tairi raa o te hope)    78D
       Binding of the chiefs of
          Opoa (Na mau arii o opoa)      80D

      Vahia                                           80D

     Hole in the ground
     for fermented breadfruit
                          (Apoo tioo)               90D (three dimensioned figure)
24BISFA2-(Ajo)
   Hope puau                                       37D
           Figure open                              37D
           Closed by pulling
                 of thumb loops                   38D
 

    Horizontal bamboo
           supporting the back
               rafters of a house
                               (Koha tua)           33D
       Small humu fish
        associated with
             Tanaoa in legend
                               (Na humu)           35D
      House of Atanua,
     The legendary
                   (Fa´e Papa)                    53D   (three dimensioned figure) 7S97
                                        ~Helix  12J03 ?BISFA 7
    House of Oro
                         (Te fare no Oro)        91D (three dimensioned figure)
    House of Tonahei
                       (Te fa´e no Tonahei)    54D  (three dimensioned figure)
    Lightning (Ui´a)                             41D
    Lizard (Mo´o)                                66D

    Membrane between
             the intestines
                               (Koukape)           30D
         Kava bowl of Akaui,
             an old hero
                             (Ipu ava Akaui)     30D

      Mountain, Hole (Moua puta)        62D
 

    Paddling a canoe (Keru´u)               23D
         Paddling a canoe
                                        (Keru´u)       23D
         Canoe (Te vaka)                          24D
 
 

    Perch of the kua birds
           (Te nohona o te kua)                32D
        Sings the komao bird                   33D
 
 

    Phaeton, Long-tailed
                       (Toake)                        21D
    Pig with eight legs
                    (Pua´a vaevae vau)         22D
    Plait of Ape (Firi rau ape)               56D

    Plait of orange leaves
                        (Firi rau anani)           67D
            Lizard back
                           (Mo´o tuaraha)        70D
            Flower bowl (Ipu tiare)           71D
            Male turtle (Honu tane)          72D
            Female turtle
                (Honu vahine)                    72D

    Pleiades (Mataiki)                          50D       11D01
           (deux personnes, deux ficelles
                        /two players, two ,strings)
                /SEVEN STARS (Pleiades) (56)
                                 (Darsie not working) Richard
                   149BISFA7      (Eric)
      Popi, two (Na na i te popi)          12D

    Rock level, The basic
         (Te tumu o te papa)                 73D
            Broken! (Vahia)                    75D

    Rurutu (Name of an island)          57D
    Scissors (U tami paoti)                  82D (sliding figure)
     Shark (Ma´o)                               85D       (deux personnes/two players)
    Slip through the fingers
             like an eel, To
                     (Koee)                          52D

     Soldier kiss (Kape honi)               25D
        Many routes of Tafai
             (a legendary hero who came to
                     the branching of a road
                      and did not know
                         which route to follow)                     27D    122Y
         O Pua
             (the name of a legendary woman)           28D

    Stone pounder (Tukii kea)             11D
    Tapa´au tua fitu                            14D
    Te mahai vero                               19D
    Thief (Kamo)                                 51D   (deux personnes,
pas pour la figure
             /two players, not for the figure)
    Titima                                           17D
    Tohio (Name of a legendary hero)              44D (deux personnes/two players)
     Trick figure, Another                   52D
    Uahuka
         (an island in the Marquesas)                    16D
    U tami                                           81D      (sliding figure)
    Vaipaee
              (Name of a valley on Hivaoa)                 47D    (deux personnes/two players)
    Wood laid across (Raau tarava)    61D
    Wrist -that is, made on the wrist
                 -lightning)  (Kooi ui´a)      42D  9J06
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

   TOURS DE FICELLE/TRICKS

    Amatara                                        90D
      Eel is lost (Tuna riro)                   89D    (deux personnes, pas
pour la figure
                      two players, not for the figure)
    Trick figure, Another                     52D
    Slip through the fingers
             like an eel, To
                     (Koee)                          52D
    Thief (Kamo)                                51D   (deux personnes, pas pour la figure
                   two players, not for the figure)

SUIVANTE