Game board
- Museum number:
- 5-16417
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016417
- Alternate number:
- B-1145 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- Yoruba Warri game board; carved wood; 2 columns of 6 equal sized compartments (for game pieces/rocks); zoomorphic figure on one end of board.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 5.6 Sports, Games, Amusements; Gambling and Pet Accessories
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- length 55 centimeters, width 17 centimeters, and height 4.5 centimeters
- Images:
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