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Evidence for Nin Adnai Kit Adnat
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.2055
Type Ethnography
Location 46° 5'59.70"N, 60°45'16.84"W
Date 1899-01-01 - 1899-12-31
Rules Draughts-like game. Played on a checkerboard. One player plays as round pieces, the other as square pieces.
Content Letter from Dr. A. S. Gatchet, from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, August 28, 1899: "The majority of the games they (Micmac people) play now are borrowed from the whites. Their checker game is the same as ours and played on a checkerboard. A checker stone is called adena'gan (plural, adena'gank), while the checker board is adenagenei'. The checkers are wither disk-shaped and smooth or square. The game is called after the moving of the stones from square to square; nin adnai', it is my move: kit adnat, it is your move." Culin 1907: 792.
Confidence 100
Source Culin, S. 1907. Games of the North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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