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Evidence in Manipur
5 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1799
Type Ethnography
Game Rongmei Naga Alignment Game
Date 1911-01-01 - 1911-12-31
Rules Three concentric squares, with lines connecting the corners and the midpoints of two opposite sides. Players alternate turns placing pieces on an empty point on the board. When all the pieces are placed, players alternate turns moving a piece to an empty adjacent spot along the lines of the board. When three of a player's pieces for a line, the player removes one of the opponent's pieces. Pieces which are in a line of three cannot be removed. The player who removes all of the opponent's pieces wins.
Content "They...in addition have the board marked "three" below. They dispose their pieces into lines of three, when they may take one of the opposite side if it is not one of a line." Hodson 1911: 32-63.
Confidence 100
Source Hodson, T. 1911. The Naga Tribes of Manipur. London: Macmillan and Co.
Id DLP.Evidence.1800
Type Ethnography
Game Mao Naga Tiger Game
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. One player plays as twenty people, stacked five each in the four points where the diagonals cross in each quadrant. The other player plays as two tigers, which are placed on the midpoints of the sides without triangles. Players alternate turns moving one piece to an adjacent spot along the lines of the board. The tiger may hop over one of the people to an empty point on the opposite side immediately adjacent to it along the lines of the board. When the tiger hops over one of the stacks, it captures only one of the people. The tigers win by capturing all the people, the people win by blocking the tigers from being able to move.
Content "The game of the tiger and the men as I saw it played at Mao requires twenty-two pieces, two tigers and twenty men. the men are placed in groups of five, one the points marked A,B, C, D inthe diagram no. 2, while the two tigers are placed at E and F. A tiger kills a man each time he jumps over a pile with a clear square beyond. When a tiger is hemmed in by men with non-open squares behind them, he is killed." Hodson 1911: 62-63.
Confidence 100
Source Hodson, T. 1911. The Naga Tribes of Manipur. London: Macmillan and Co.
Id DLP.Evidence.1801
Type Ethnography
Game Manipur Capturing Game
Date 1911-01-01 - 1911-12-31
Rules 5s5 intersecting lines, with the two diagonals of the full board. 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 "The draughts game is played in much the same way as ours, with the exception that they have no rule "crowning" pieces that succeed in reaching the back line and permitting them to move either way." Hodson 1911: 62-63.
Confidence 100
Source Hodson, T. 1911. The Naga Tribes of Manipur. London: Macmillan and Co.
Id DLP.Evidence.1802
Type Ethnography
Game Rongmei Naga Capturing Game
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.
Id DLP.Evidence.1803
Type Ethnography
Game Rongmei Naga Hunt Game
Date 1911-01-01 - 1911-12-31
Rules 5x3 intersecting lines, with diagonals in each quadrant. Hunt game.
Content Fig 4 on Hodson 1911: 63: "Tiger and Men."
Confidence 100
Source Hodson, T. 1911. The Naga Tribes of Manipur. London: Macmillan and Co.
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