The first travelers who visited the Marquesas Islands found them peopled
with a magnificent race, of which every Member was an athlete; an artistic race
whose beautiful clothes lasted until death put an end to the wearer, for their
costume was the skin with which the Creator covered their bodies-but which the
islanders had beautifully decorated with tattooing, from the crowns of their
heads to the tips of their toes. One of the chiefs, when measured, was found to
stand six feet eight inches in his bare feet.
They were great stilt-walkers, and
went through performances which would excite the envy of any modern acrobat. They ran races, jumped and danced on their
beautifully made and superbly decorated stilts, and thought it great fun to trip
each other up.
In place of
straps the block of the Marquesas stilt curves over so as to hold the foot. They used hand-stilts like those of the
Western boys (Fig. 78).
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