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About this item: In the traditional style of dakon, this board game is handcrafted of wood and decorated with traditional batik designs. Javanese artisan Diana Dewi invites you to play this classic Indonesian game. Each sawah (hole) is filled with five to seven stones and the game is played in turns. Similarly to mancala, each player collects the biji sawo (stones) from one hole and deposits them one-by-one into the following holes. The player scores a capture if the final stone is dropped into an empty hole. If that empty hole is on their own side, known as nembak, they capture the stones of the hole on the opposite side, depositing them into their "rice bowl." If the empty hole is on their opponents side and each adjacent hole contains an equal number of stones, known as mikul, then the player captures the stones from each adjacent hole, as well as the final stone from their previous hand.Hand-crafted item -- color, size and/or motif may vary slightlyWarning: Choking Hazard. Small parts -- not for children under 3 years.
About our Artist: I was born in Banjarnegoro, a plateau in Central Java with an awesome scenery that includes villages, farms, and craters. I left my parents home to go to high school and found a new way of thinking, a new community, and a new activity that lead me to a world that I really love: handcrafts. I believe that there is no such thing as coincidence. Difficulties are just a way of finding happiness. It doesnt matter how big or difficult the challenge is, what matters is how we take care of it, get up, and survive. Most of my designs are inspired by our culture, like batik...