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Street games

Also known as Marbles · Hopscotch

Street games: photograph by James Emery from Douglasville, United States
Photo: James Emery from Douglasville, United States, CC BY 2.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Children's yard games: flicking marbles at targets and hopping through a chalk grid.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Bahamas.

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 The Americas: Caribbean.

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