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Evidence in Northern Teso; Southern Teso; Bunyoro
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1306
Type Ethnography
Game Mweso
Date 1912-01-01 - 1912-12-31
Rules Four row board, pieces are sown, captures are made from opposite holes in the opponent's rows, a player wins by capturing all the opponent's pieces.
Content "If there is no work to be done and the charms of visiting are for the time palling, an unfailing resource is the game called in Luganda mweso, in Lunyoro okusora, and in Teso akileyisit. This game is almost universal in Africa in some form, and the board on which it is played gets but little rest in most villages. A smooth patch of ground, with the requisite holes dug, and with a surface of cow-dung to prevent crumbling, will answer the purpose as well as a board, except that it cannot be moved into the shade when the sun comes over the spot. The only other requisite the handful of black beans used as counters or men; these are distributed throughout the two rows of holes on each side of the board, and moved by gathering all in any one hole and dropping one into each of the succeeding holes until according to certain rather confusing rules the turn is ended. Under certain conditions the player can take all the men in the holes opposite to the one at which he conclides and distribute them on his own side of the board; the winner is the player who succeeds in capturing all his opponent's pieces." Kitching 1912: 227. Murray (1951: 199) incorrectly interprets this account as a two-row mancala game.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Source Kitching, A. 1912. On the Backwaters of the Nile. London: T. Fisher Urwin.
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