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Evidence for Yup'ik Checkers
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1866
Type Ethnography
Location 60°34'49.10"N,165°15'28.83"W
Date 1973-01-01 - 1974-12-31
Rules Played on an 8x8 board with each player having twelve pieces. Pieces move diagonally any number of spaces forward. Capturing must happen if it is possible. Multiple captures are allowed. Once pieces reach the opposite side of the board from their starting position, they are promoted and can move diagonally either forwards or backwards. The goal is to capture all of the opponent's pieces.
Content "Checkers: This Game is played often indoors during recess at school by students of the upper grades. The rules are standard with one exception. Pieces may be moved any number of spaces on the diagonal, in the same manner as the bishop in a chess game. This usually means the games are over quickly." Ethnography of L. Ager in Tununak, Alaska. Ager 1975: 117.
Confidence 100
Ages Child
Source Ager, L. 1975. "Alaskan Children's Games and their Relationship to Cultural Values and Role Structure in a Nelson Island Community." Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbus: The Ohio State University.
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