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Evidence for Nuktagaq
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1861
Type Ethnography
Location 68°59'4.49"N, 81°35'22.39"W
Date 1937-03-06 - 1937-03-30
Rules Cross-shaped board made of five squares. The four squares of the arms have diagonals and lines connecting the midpoints of opposite sides. The central square has diagonals and a line connecting the central point with the midpoint of the lower side. One player plays with nineteen pieces, which begin on the uppermost nineteen points. The other player plays with two pieces, which begin on the central space and the one immediately below it. The player with two pieces goes first. Pieces move along the lines of the board to an empty adjacent spot. The player with two pieces may capture an adjacent opponent's piece by hopping over it to an empty spot immediately on the opposite side of it. The player with two pieces wins by capturing all of the opponent's pieces; the player with nineteen pieces wins by blocking the opponent from being able to move.
Content Account of the game from Rowley: "We had noticed that Kutjek had a strange pattern marked with little holes on the lid of one of his boxes. He now produced some pegs and started to play a game with Mino. It was a variant of Fox and Geese, called by the Inuit Nuktagaq. Reynold and I watched carefully and then we played...A has 19 men placed as shown-X. he is the attacker. B has 2 men placed as shown- O. He is the defender. Moves are made along the lines. Only B can take men and does so as in checkers or draughts - by jumping over an opponent's man into an unoccupied space. A tries to confine B's men so they cannot move./ B starts." Rowley 2007: 99, Appendix B.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Non-Elite
Genders Male
Source Rowley, G. 2007. Cold Comfort: My Love Affair with the Arctic. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
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