"Board Game Called Awalé - Ivory Coast - First Half Of The 20th Century "
BOARD GAME called AwaléIvory Coast
First half of the 20th century
Wood and pigments
H. 15.5; W 55; D 25 cm
Wooden tray with two rows of six round cavities, centred with an anthropo-zoomorphic decoration: two faces seen from the front and pigmented with blue are carved on either side of a lizard.
Awalé is a strategy game played by two people using Caesalpinia crista seeds, the aim being to fill each of the twelve cups with four seeds.
Our game has forty-one seeds, and it should have forty-eight.
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