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Evidence for Worra
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1873
Type Ethnography
Location Nineteenth Century Ashanti
Date 1817-01-01 - 1817-12-31
Rules 2x7 board.
Content "...the King is always seated in public, with his golden worra board before him, playing with some dignitary; and thus receives the news, to impress the people with confidence by his affected indifference to victory or defeat...Their principal game are Worra, which I could not understand...The two men are playing at Worra." Worra board depicted in Drawing 10, on a 2x7 board. Bowditch 1819: 299, 303, 309.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Elite, Royalty
Spaces Outside, Public, Private, Household, Administrative
Genders Male
Source Bowditch, T. 1819. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of other Parts of the Interior of Africa. London: J. Murray.
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