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Evidence in Samoa
2 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1796
Type Ethnography
Game Moo (Hunt)
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.
Id DLP.Evidence.2155
Type Ethnography
Game Samoan Game
Date 1899-01-01 - 1899-12-31
Rules 12x6 board, though other sizes are possible. Each player lines up their pieces in the first two rows of the long side. Pieces move one place only. Pieces do not jump when capturing.
Content "For evenings and rainy days there are indoor games. One of these is somewhat after the nature of checkers. The common mats which cover the floors of Samoan houses are woven in squares an inch each way. These mats afford a satisfactory substitute for a board on which to play. The boards are not composed of the squares of eight as in the familiar game, but are oblongs without an apparently fixed number of squares. Several games showed the employment of a board of twelve squares long and six across, the players placing two rows of counters at the long sides, advancing a single square at a time under all circumstances, and not jumping when capturing a piece. The game seems little played now." Churchill 1899: 567.
Confidence 100
Spaces Inside
Source Churchill, L. 1899. "Sports of the Samoans." The Outing Magazine 33: 562-568.
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