| Native Name |
Chola (uncertain) | Dhola (uncertain) |
| Object Number |
16476B |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Sinhalese |
| Provenience |
Sri Lanka |
| Date Made |
1883 |
| Section |
Asian |
| Materials |
Textile |
| Description |
One of two cloths for game of Dhola. The men for the game are numbered 16477 and 16478. 16476B is beige colored. |
| Length |
61 cm |
| Width |
61 cm |
| Credit Line |
Purchased from the Ceylon Commissioner, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| 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, Plate 30 |
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| Culin, Robert S. Korean Games, with Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1895. See: pg. 75, Fig. 82 |
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