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Encyclopedia ID 1025

Sungka

Illustration pattern only. No free-licence photograph yet: can you suggest one?

Filipino mancala with 7 houses per side and 2 home pits.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Philippines.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Deep Past and First Games (before about 3000 BCE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Southeast Asia and the Islands.

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