Game Board & Counters
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Jun 1890
label: Collection Date
content: Oct 1889 to 6 Feb 1890
name: label: Collector
content: William H. Brown
label: Donor Name
content: William H. Brown
label: Expedition
content: Eclipse Expedition
label: Vessel
content: Pensacola
notes: label: Notes
content: 2 parts: Game board and bag of counters (about 39 seed counters)
label: Notes
content: From card: "Mancala game board & 39 seed counters. This game is called WARI in Ashanti. Ref.: Rattray, Religion and Art in Ashanti, pg. 382-390. Illus. in USNM Rept., 1894; Pl. 3, pg. 602. Tag on specimen: "Nov. 26, 1889, Elmina, Gold Coast [the Gold Coast is now Ghana]. The game of Alwel is played on this coast. 3 shillings. See diary for Nov. 26th.""
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 60 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Africans (Musical)".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Elmina, Ghana, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ashanti (Asante) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 023272
label: USNM Number
content: E151128-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game Board / Game Piece