Packet 7: Tossup 20

Boston’s MFA exhibits an indigo boubou depicting magic squares and implements for this activity, which supposedly influences the sex of Baule (“bow-lay”) children. Ndop portraits of the Bushoong king Shyaam depict this activity, since he taught it in lieu of warfare after introducing raffia and cassava to 17th-century Kuba. The Bachwezi supposedly taught a form of this activity that demarcated kabakas’ wives from commoners. Abeid Karume was shot during this activity, whose variants include bao, omweso, and oware. (10[1])Southeast Asian forms of this game, (-5[1])like congkak (“CHONG-kahk”), may have been spread by Arab traders who learned (10[1])it on the Swahili Coast. This game typically (-5[1])involves laps of figurative “sowing” (10[1])with a bonus move (-5[1])from landing in the (10[1])player’s (10[1])store. (10[5])For (10[1])10 points, (10[2])48 stones (10[2])move (10[1]-5[2])along a two-row (10[1]-5[1])board in the standard form of what African (10[1])count-and-capture game? ■END■ (10[4]0[2])

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