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Evidence for Rongmei Naga Capturing Game
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1802
Type Ethnography
Location Manipur
Date 1911-01-01 - 1911-12-31
Rules 5x5 intersecting lines, with diagonals in each quadrant. Two triangles, the apexes of which intersect with the square at the midpoint of opposite sides. One line bisecting two sides of the triangle.The player's pieces begin on opposite sides of the board. Players alternate turns moving a piece to an empty adjacent spot along the lines of the board. A piece may capture an opponent's piece by hopping over it to an empty adjacent spot immediately on the opposite side of the piece along the lines of the board. The player who captures all of the opponent's pieces wins. Pieces are not promoted when reaching the opposite side of the board from where they begin.
Content "They, however, use for draughts the same board as is used by the Mao folk for the game of tiger and the men." Hodson 1911: 62-63.
Confidence 100
Source Hodson, T. 1911. The Naga Tribes of Manipur. London: Macmillan and Co.
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