Maré’s spinning-board game

Small people were remembered at Rawa and Peorawa before later arrivals reached Maré. Dubois’s history associates these first inhabitants with knowledge of boomerangs and bullroarers. Games once went with the growing of the yams: young men bounced straight sticks and bent boomerangs along the ground and tallied points on fern fronds. Among the island's other games was a little board, twenty centimetres long, spun at the end of a string, though Dubois did not see it played much.

faire tourner un rhombe, planchette de 20 cm, au bout d'une ficelle

spin a bullroarer, a board 20 cm long, at the end of a string

M.-J. Dubois 1971, Ethnobotanique de Maré, p. 359

Particulars

Object

A wooden board about 20 cm long, spun at the end of a cord.

Function

Spun as a game, though rarely played.