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Evidence for Samoan Game
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.2155
Type Ethnography
Location Samoa
Date 1899-01-01 - 1899-12-31
Rules 12x6 board, though other sizes are possible. Each player lines up their pieces in the first two rows of the long side. Pieces move one place only. Pieces do not jump when capturing.
Content "For evenings and rainy days there are indoor games. One of these is somewhat after the nature of checkers. The common mats which cover the floors of Samoan houses are woven in squares an inch each way. These mats afford a satisfactory substitute for a board on which to play. The boards are not composed of the squares of eight as in the familiar game, but are oblongs without an apparently fixed number of squares. Several games showed the employment of a board of twelve squares long and six across, the players placing two rows of counters at the long sides, advancing a single square at a time under all circumstances, and not jumping when capturing a piece. The game seems little played now." Churchill 1899: 567.
Confidence 100
Spaces Inside
Source Churchill, L. 1899. "Sports of the Samoans." The Outing Magazine 33: 562-568.
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