Game board for the "mankala" or "serata" game ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3038883

Description

wood, brown patina, metal sheet, rectangular block on four feet with 12 circular deepenings in two parallel rows, projections formed like pipe heads at each side (for keeping the won gaming pieces), min. dam., small missing parts, traces of usage and abrasion

The object Game board for the “mankala” or “serata” game with the object ID 3038883 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 202.

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Comparing literature

Fischer, Eberhard & Hans Himmelheber, Die Kunst der Dan, Zürich 1976, ill. 168 f.