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Evidence in Nineteenth Century Ashanti
3 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1873
Type Ethnography
Game Worra
Date 1817-01-01 - 1817-12-31
Rules 2x7 board.
Content "...the King is always seated in public, with his golden worra board before him, playing with some dignitary; and thus receives the news, to impress the people with confidence by his affected indifference to victory or defeat...Their principal game are Worra, which I could not understand...The two men are playing at Worra." Worra board depicted in Drawing 10, on a 2x7 board. Bowditch 1819: 299, 303, 309.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Elite, Royalty
Spaces Outside, Public, Private, Household, Administrative
Genders Male
Source Bowditch, T. 1819. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of other Parts of the Interior of Africa. London: J. Murray.
Id DLP.Evidence.1874
Type Ethnography
Game Ashanti Draughts
Date 1817-01-01 - 1817-12-31
Rules Similar to Polish Draughts. Pieces move forwards and backwards, and also capture forwards and backwards. Promoted pieces moves diagonally any number of spaces.
Content "...we walked out in the town, and conversed and played drafts with (them), who were reclining under trees...Their principal games are...Drafts, which (they) play well and constantly. Their method resembles the Polish, they take and move backwards and forwards, and a king has the bishop's move in chess." Bowditch 1819: 114, 303.
Confidence 100
Spaces Outside, Public
Source Bowditch, T. 1819. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of other Parts of the Interior of Africa. London: J. Murray.
Id DLP.Evidence.1875
Type Ethnography
Game Ashanti Alignment Game
Date 1817-01-01 - 1817-12-31
Rules The board is a series of intersecting lines in many directions, each line with three points. Players have equal numbers of pegs, and place their pieces at the same time. Players who place three of their pieces in a row remove one of the opponent's pieces. The player who removes all of the opponent's pieces wins.
Content "They have another game, for which a board is perforated like a cribbage board, but in numerous oblique lines, traversing each other in all directions, and each composed of three holes for pegs; the players begin at the same instant, with an equal number of pegs, and he who inserts or completes a line first, in spite of the baulks of his adversary, takes a peg from him, until the stock of either is exhausted." Bowdtich 1819: 303.
Confidence 100
Source Bowditch, T. 1819. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of other Parts of the Interior of Africa. London: J. Murray.
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