"Wa-ree" [Wari] Game board
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1890
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. F. Gardener Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Illus. in USNM [Annual} Rept, 1894; Pl. 5, page 604." Identified there as "Board for Wa-We (Mancala), Island of St. Lucia, Collected by Rev. F. Gardiner." See also p. 605 in this publication, where this artifact is discussed, including how it is played, and the name of the game is transcribed as Wa-wee.
label: Notes
content: Locality changed from "South Africa (?)" to "Caribbean / St. Lucia (?)". Catalog card gives St. Lucia as the locality, but does not say who made this attribution or why. The ledger book simply says "Africa?". The accession file includes a small note from the curator at the time, asking the memo's recipient to ask the donor where the "wa-ree" was from, but there is no reply. However, the rest of the collection comes from Barbados, and a letter from the donor mentions his travels in many countries of the Caribbean, with no mention of Africa. Therefore, it seems likely that the game board is from the Caribbean, not Africa.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Lucia (not certain), Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022998
label: USNM Number
content: E151286-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game