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Encyclopedia ID 685

Glass marbles

Also known as Bolas de cristal

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

Marbles.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Ecuador.

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: Andes and South America.

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