Description (Physical description)
Accession register for Z 16971[.1-8]: '5 wooden boards for game - with 32 partitions + marbles pebbles + seed bags for playing (one set of beans destroyed)
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Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1 for Z 16971[.1-8]: '5 wooden boards for a game. Each board has 32 partitions. Marbles/pebbles/seeds in bags for playing game. One set of beans also destroyed'
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Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Note on catalogue card for Z 16971[.1-8] reads: 'One of these boards probably came from Ernest Haddon in 1974, October, with a collection of seeds, which were purchased in Zanzibar.'
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Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 2 for Z 16971[.1-8]: '5 boards for game with 32 partitions. Four sets of (marbles 1, beads 3) for playing games.'
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Author: Emily Shorter

Context (Production / use)
Note on catalogue card for Z 16971[.1-8] reads: 'Terms for the game Bao - Swahili, Cholo - N Uganda and, Mweso in Uganda.'
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Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Bao, Cholo, Mweso. A wooden mancala game board. Flat and rectangular with 32 square carved compartments, and a rectangular projection one short edge with a small drilled hole, through which a length of string is threaded.
Event Date 1/4/2022
Author: Emily Shorter

Context (Amendments / updates)
The catalogue card claims that one board with a collection seeds was probably acquired by Earnest Balfour Haddon in Zanzibar, and then given to MAA in 1974. However, it is not possible to know which board and bag of seeds this refers to. Haddon has therefore been added tentatively to the source field and Zanzibar has been added tentatively to the place field for each object suffixed under Z 16971.
Event Date 1/4/2022
Author: Emily Shorter