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Dego

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

Players throw a stone close to a peg and may knock an opponent's stone away; (Wikipedia Sports in Bhutan page does not list it).

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Bhutan.

Origins

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

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