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Pilolo

Also known as hide and seek treasure hunt

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

Children hide a small object and the others hunt for it, a Ga game mixing hide-and-seek with treasure hunt.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Ghana.

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 Africa: Sahel, West and Central.

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