Game board, with seeds
Yoruba; Nigeria, Ijebu-Remo
Gift of the Akarigbo (chief) of Ijebu-Remo
Collected by William R. and Berta Bascom, 1951
5-14938
This board was used for playing the seed game known among the Yoruba as ayo (elsewhere in Africa as mancala or ware). The Yoruba played the game between two people. The object is to move the counters from cup to cup in order to capture more than half of the total set of 48 seeds. Finely decorated boards like this one were status symbols and were sometimes given as gifts to important visitors, as was this one.
(Photograph 2 of 8)
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