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The Material Culture of the Cook Islands (Aitutaki)

Skipping, Tuhiri kaka

Skipping, Tuhiri kaka.

Skipping was a common pastime amongst children. The rope was a length of vine known as kaka. The vine was swung by two children. Single skipping does not seem to have been indulged in. Wyatt Gill states that the vine used was the green stem of the Entada scandens.

The Maori called the exercise piu. It will be seen that both in Aitutaki and New Zealand the game took its name from the swinging of the rope, whereas the European names it from the physical action of the persons jumping over the moving rope. The action is the same, but in naming the exercise the two races approach the subject from the opposite direction.