{{Short description|Aboriginal Australian children's game}} {{About|the children's game|the bird call|Common chaffinch}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} '''Weet weet''' (also called '''wit-wit''' or '''throwing the play stick''') is an Australian Aboriginal children's throwing game popular in some parts of Australia.<ref name="Haagen1994">{{cite book|author=Claudia Haagen|title=Bush Toys: Aboriginal Children at Play|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dIqhiI8NnYgC&pg=PA78|accessdate=14 November 2012|year=1994|publisher=Aboriginal Studies Press|isbn=978-0-85575-245-3|pages=78–}}</ref> Weet weet is also the traditional name of the object that is thrown, but it is also called a "kangaroo rat". A traditional weet weet it is difficult to recreate, so a club can be used and small children can play the game using a tennis ball placed in a stocking. The winner is the person to throw the weet weet the furthest or most accurately.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ausport.gov.au/participating/indigenous/resources/games_and_activities/individual_games/target_games/weet_weet.pdf |title=Weet weet |publisher=Australian Sports Commission |accessdate=12 November 2012 |archive-date=22 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322061416/http://ausport.gov.au/participating/indigenous/resources/games_and_activities/individual_games/target_games/weet_weet.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain and weet-weet == The famous writer Mark Twain as an example of wit and intelligence of the Australian Aboriginal people wrote a chapter in his book ''Following the Equator'' about the weet-weet (or kangaroo-rat)<ref name="oo">[http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/mark_twain/following_the_equator/20/ ''Following the Equator'', Chapter XXI; Mark Twain.]</ref> But the mentioned chapter is not a simple description of an exotic toy, it is a blunt and critical summary of the white man's genocide actions against indigenous.<ref name = "oo"/>
In the past Aboriginal Australians used weet weets for hunting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/the-koorie-heritage-trust-collections-and-history/4851/weet-weet/ |title=Weet weet |publisher=Culture Victoria |accessdate=17 November 2012}}</ref>
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Category:Children's games Category:Australian Aboriginal culture Category:Australian games
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