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Evidence for Alkarhat
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1868
Type Ethnography
Location Air
Date 1922-01-01 - 1922-12-31
Rules 6x6 board. Thirteen pieces per player. Players attempt to surround another player's piece.
Content Account of Rodd, from the Air mountains of Niger: "Divination is resorted...by playing that curious game resembling draughts which is so widespread all over the world. In Air the game takes the form of a "board" of thirty-six holes marked in the sand. Each player has thirteen counters made of date stones, or bits of wood, or pebbles, or camel droppings. The object of the game is to surround a pawn belonging to one's adversary, somewhat on the principle of "Noughts and Crosses." The game is called Alkarhat and the a Holy Man presides, the winner of three successive games carries the alternative submitted for divine decision." Rodd 1926: 281.
Confidence 100
Source Rodd, R. 1926. People of the Veil: Being an Account of the Habits, Organisation and History of the Wandering Tuareg Tribes which Inhabit the Mountains of Air or Asben in the Central Sahara. London: Macmillan.
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