| 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, William 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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