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Encyclopedia ID 1137

Keram

Also known as Carrom

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

Flick-disc board game, played in bars at night.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Tanzania.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Modern Heritage (1800 to today), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Africa: Great Lakes and Indian Ocean.

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