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Gameboard

Maker Unknown, Baule

MediumWood

Dimensions7 1/2” x 19 1/8” x 7 5/8”

Credit LineGift of the Herman Copen Trust

Object numberAF2002.1425.COP

DescriptionGameboard on a stool-like pedestal consisting of a rectangular block with small excavated rectangular sections and a platform with zigzag incisions. Diagonal incisions are on the edges of the board. Relief images of a snake, fish and face are on the median element on top that divides the six cups on each side. This type of seed capture game is played widely in Africa and is conventionally known among anthropologists by the term mancala.

ClassificationsToys

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Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

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