Game Board
16476A
From: Sri Lanka
Curatorial Section: Asian
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Native Name
Chola (uncertain) | Dhola (uncertain)
Object Number
16476A
Current Location
Collections Storage
Culture
Sinhalese
Provenience
Sri Lanka
Date Made
1883 CE
Section
Asian
Materials
Textile
Description
One of two cloths for game of Dhola. The men for the game are numbered 16477 and 16478. 16476A is blue with white lining; 94cm x 86cm.
Credit Line
Purchased from the Ceylon Commissioner, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
Brown, W. N. "Indian Games of Pachisi, Chaupar, and Chausar ." Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 6, no. 3. (1964): 32-35. See: Pg. 33
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Culin, Robert S. Games of the Orient . Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1958. See: pg. 75, Fig. 82
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Culin, Robert S. Chess and Playing Cards: Catalogue of games and implements for divination exhibited by the Unites States National Museum in connection with the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia 1895 . Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1898. Page/Fig./Plate: 856
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