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Evidence for Machánan

1 pieces of evidence found.

Id DLP.Evidence.1704
Type Ethnography
Game Machánan
Location Java
Date 1817-01-01 - 1817-12-31
Rules There are two tigers and 23 cows. Each player plays as one tiger. The player who captures the most cows wins.
Content "Machánan, is a game in which two chief pieces represent tigers, one conducted by each party, and twenty-three pieces representing cows: the tiger who destroys the most wins the game." Raffles 1817: 391.
Confidence 100
Source Raffles, T. 1817. The History of Java. London: John Murray.

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