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Encyclopedia ID 1026

Tapatan

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

Three men's morris style game on a 3x3 grid.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Philippines.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of River Valleys and First Cities (about 3000 to 1000 BCE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Southeast Asia and the Islands.

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