Hawaiian Jackstraws

Note: The graphic illustrating this activity was taken from Culin's Book Games of The Orient, 1958, page xxvii. The document source page number appears in brackets before the text


Jackstraws

89. Pau-nau-we - Jackstraws

[Page 245] Some twenty-five or thirty small splints (la-au) are allowed to fall in a heap, and the players endeavor to separate them one by one without moving the others.

The name means "to divide into parcels or parts."


Last update February 2, 2010