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Evidence for Okwe (Igbo)
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.2153
Type Ethnography
Location Igboland
Date 1926-01-01 - 1926-12-31
Rules 2x6 board. Players sow counters. When the final counter lands in a hole in the player's own row, captures are made from the opponent's opposite hole if it contains one or three counters.
Content "The commnest of all games is some form of the Arab Mancala, a kind of backgammon played with counters-generally seeds or small pebbles- on a board furnished with two rows of holes, about a dozen in each. It is everywhere in use, but chiefly perhaps in the Edo and Ibo countries; in the latter it is called Okwe, the name of the tree from which the seeds used for counters are obtained. Each person tries to drop his last one opposite the hole, in which his opponent has one or three, and, if he succeeds, captures these." Talbot 1926: 817.
Confidence 100
Source Talbot, P. 1926. The Peoples of Southern Nigeria. London: Frank Cass and Co. Ltd.
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