Vintage Wooden Mancala/Pallanguli Board

A fine handcrafted vintage mancala/pallanguli board game. This 40-year old piece would take you down memory lane to your childhood when you must have played this traditional game. The piece is in great condition with no damages whatsoever. A lovely piece of traditional Indian culture that can be used to accessorise your walls as well.

Known as Pallanguli in Tamil, Alaguli Mane in Kannada, Picchala Peeta in Telugu, it is a traditional ancient Tamil mancala game played in South India especially Tamil Nadu . Later the games were spread to other places including Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala in India as well as, SriLanka and Malaysia. Variants are called as Ali guli mane (in Kannada), Vamana guntalu (in Telugu), and Kuzhipara (in Malayalam). The game is played by two players, with a wooden board that has fourteen pits in all (hence the name from the words fourteen pits (pathinaalam kuzhi). The pits contain cowry shells, seeds or small pebbles used as counters. There are several variations of the game depending on the number of shells each player starts with.