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Evidence for Moo (Hunt)
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1796
Type Ethnography
Location Samoa
Date 1898-01-01 - 1898-12-31
Rules Played with pebbles on a board with squares. One player plays with one black piece, the other plays with a number of white pieces. Pieces move to adjacent spots on the board. The black piece may hop over a white piece to capture it. The black piece wins by capturing all the white pieces, the white pieces win by blocking the black piece from being able to move.
Content "The Samoan men at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago described a native game to the writer uner the name of Moo. It was played with pebbles upon the squares of a mat by two persons. One had a number of white stones, the other a black piece. The rules appeared to be the same as Fox and Geese." Culin 1898: 876.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Genders Male
Source Culin, S. 1898. Chess and Playing-Cards. Washington: Government Printing Office.
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