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Evidence for Mandinka Game
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1872
Type Ethnography
Location Gambia
Date 1620-01-01 - 1621-12-31
Rules Board with large holes. Around thirty counters. Counters are captured. the player who captures the most counters wins.
Content "In the heat of the day, the men will come forth, and sit themselues in companies, vnder the shady trees, to receiue the fresh aire, and there passe the time in communication, hauing on∣ly one kind of game to recreate themselues withall, and that is in a peece of wood, certaine great holes cut, which they set vpon the ground betwixt two of them, and with a number of some thirtie pibble stones, after a manner of counting, they take one from the other, vntill one is possessed of all, where∣at some of them are wondrous nimble" Jobson 1623: 38.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Spaces Outside
Genders Male
Source Jobson, R. 1623. The Golden Trade. London: Nicholas Okes.
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