|
Evidence for En Gehé
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.762
Type Ethnography
Game En Gehé
Location Maasai Tanzania
Date 1904-01-01 - 1904-12-31
Rules Each team controls one row. Play begins with each hole containing four counters (usually seeds or pebbles). A player picks up the counters in a hole in his team's row and sows them in a counterclockwise fashion, one in each consecutive hole. If the last counter is deposited into a hole containing counter, those counters are picked up and the player continues sowing. The turn continues in this fashion until the last counter falls into an empty hole. If this empty hole is on the player's side, the counters in the opposite hole in the other team's row are captured. The counter also causing the capture is taken. Play continues until one team cannot move, and the remaining counters are captured by the other team. The team with the most seeds wins.
Content "Diese ziehen meist das en gehé ('n gehén) vor, welches in ganz derselben Weise gespielt wird (en dodoi), nur dass auf jeder Seite ungefähr acht Spieler nach einander je einen Gang spielen und dass jeder Reihe 40 bis 50 Fächer hat, die nicht in ein Brett eingemeisselt, sondern in den Erdboden gescharrt sind." Merker 1904: 37.
Confidence 100
Source Merker, M. 1904. Die Masai: Ethnographische Monographie eines ostafrikanischen Semitenvolkes. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen).
|
