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Evidence for Umuahia
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1159
Type Ethnography
Game Ako Okwe
Location 5°31'29.30"N, 7°29'33.22"E
Date 1951-01-01 - 1951-01-01
Rules 2x5 board with two stores. Ten counters in each hole Play begins from any of a player's holes, and sowing proceeds in either direction, at the player's choice. The first counter is sown in the hole from which the counters were taken. When the last counter of a sowing falls into a hole, making the contents of that hole odd (but not more than nine), the counters are captured. The first capture must be of three, second must be of one counter.
Content Recorded by K.C. Murray, Surveyor of Antiquities of Nigeria
"7.5.56. Nigeria. Umuahia...At Umuahia, the first capture must be of three beans and the second of one bean. The game is compared with marketing and the captures are said to be placed in the bank (nkuru)." Murray 1951: 192.
Confidence 100
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