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Rope skipping, tops, marbles

Also known as Sote kòd · Ralba · Teke mab

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

Child street games revived at community events.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Haiti.

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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