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Kriol traditional games

Also known as Kriol street games · Bruk Macachista, Landan Bridge, Outside Jewbell

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

Group chasing and rhyme games collected in a heritage booklet to revive Kriol play.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Belize.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Modern Heritage (1800 to today), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of The Americas: Mesoamerica.

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