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Evidence in Tarapaca
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1319
Type Ethnography
Game Pasa
Date 1853-01-01 - 1854-12-31
Rules The board is a double-headed eagle, with two lines of ten holes. One seven-sided die. Oe side has a special mark, one is blank, and the others are numbered 1-5. The special mark scores 10, the blank side scores -10. Players roll the die, and add up their scores as they go, placing a peg in a hole to mark ten points. The player who reaches 100 points first wins.
Content "At such times the Indian plays the game of pasa. It is one of great antiquity, and seems to be the only one of this sort. Pasa means a hundred, as he wins who first gets that number. They play at it with two instruments: one a spread eagle of wood with ten holes on each side, being tens, and are marked with pegs to denote every man's gettings; the other is a bone in the manner of a die, cut with seven faces, one of which has a particular mark, called guayaro (huyaru). The other five tell according to the number of them, and the last is a blank. The way of playing is to toss up the bone, and the marks on the upper surface are so many got. But the guayro goes for ten, and the like number is lost, if the blank side appears." Bollaert 1860: 168.
Confidence 100
Source Bollaert, W. 1860. Antiquarian, Ethnological and other Researches in New Granada, Equador, Peru and Chile. London: Trübner and Co.
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