The Sungka

Posted by Unknown On Friday, July 23, 2010 0 comments
Sungka is a traditional Filipino Game played by two participants. The object of the game is to amass stones or cowrie shells in your home base (bahay) by continuously distributing the shells around lesser holes until you run out of shells to distribute. The person who collects the most shells in his/her bahay wins.




This sungka-an was bought many years ago and is now displayed in our living room. I used to play with this sungka with my cousins long time ago when we were still kids but as we grew older, it only became a display figure in our home. As you can see, there are also cowrie shells which are used to play sungka. Those shells were pretty shiny and smooth to touch. :)


This photo is pretty much vintage looking. 
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