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Encyclopedia ID 1410

Five-Pin Bowling

Also known as Quilles a cinq

Five-Pin Bowling: photograph by Benjamin J. DeLong
Photo: Benjamin J. DeLong, CC BY 2.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Small hard rubber balls knock down five numbered pins (value 5-3-2-3-5); players score by pin value across ten frames.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Canada.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Age of Contact and Craft (about 1500 to 1800), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of The Americas: North America.

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