Rectangular carved wooden olinda board with fourteen circular and two rectangular depressions on the top of the board. There is a band of carved flowers around the rim, carved flowers in the centre and at the end of the rows of circular depressions. On the base there are four square feet.
Board for Olinda, a game like Mankala, played with seeds of the Olinda tree. Kandy, Ceylon.
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