1917.2.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Carved and painted board. For playing mancala. Made from wood and carved with figures of people and animals at the sides. [AB [OPS Move] 22/7/2016]

Long description

Carved and painted board. For playing mancala. Made from wood and carved with figures of people and animals at the sides. There is a female head protruding from one of the short sides with a plant-like protrusion at the other end. The top of the board is carved elaborately with twelve cups with raised rims for playing 'mancala'. [AB [OPS Move] 22/7/2016]

Geographical reference

Nigeria

Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria

Benin

Africa > Western Africa > Benin

Abeokuta

Cultural groups

Yoruba

Person

Field collector George Chardin Denton

PRM source George Chardin Denton

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1917

Date collected

By 1917

Acquisition information

Donated: 1917

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Metal, Process Carved, Process Painted

Dimensions

Height: max 245 mm, Length: max 765 mm, Width: max 390 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1917.2.1

Research and responses

There are other entries from a Captain and Mrs Denton and a Mrs Denton which might also be from George Chardin Denton [and his wife, actually called Jean Margaret Alan Denton, died 1900] but as Denton is not an uncommon name I have not added this possibility to the PRM source field for these entries, calling up Denton calls up the 70 relevant total entries [AP 19/11/2001]

Associated publications

Listed as number 29 on page 7 of Art from the Guinea Coast (Pitt Rivers Museum, Illustrated Catalogue No. 1), Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum (1965): 'NIGERIA Western Region ... 29. Board for ayo, the Yoruba form of the Arab game mankala, carved in the style of Abeokuta. Yoruba (1917.2.1.) (76 cm.)'. [JC 12 9 2013]

Search terms: Toy and Game, Figure, Game