bau board

Bau board consisting of rectangular piece of wood with notched edges and with two rows of raised holes, 12 holes in each row. Stone playing pieces wrapped in pieces of brown cloth. Cloth bag is tied with coarse fibre string and attached to piece of hide looped through hole in board. Made by elders.

Used by old men who play with 4 men per side and three stones put in every second hole. Made by a special woodcarving craftsman, an old man who can also make wooden containers. vernacular name: NDODOI

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1972.30
PLACE
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; stone; textile
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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