Game board for the "mankala" or "serata" game ·  Nigeria, Mumuye · ID: 3040199

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Description

wood, brown patina, the board divided into two rows, each with eight deepenings, crowned by a human head, dam., strong traces of weathering, small missing parts, cracks through age, base;
such game boards are well known in most parts of Africa and they are still used nowadays. Fruit kernels are used as tokens.

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Publications

Neyt, Francois, Mumuye, Paris 2006, p. 104, ill. 8; Galerie Flak (ed.), Nigeria - Les Maitres du Mouvement, Paris 2012, p. 36

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Exhibition

Galerie Flak (ed.), Nigeria - Les Maitres du Mouvement, Paris, Parcours des Mondes, September 2012

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