Warra

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The game Warra was described in 1919 by the Austrian anthropologist Felix von Luschan as a Mancala variant that is played in the states in the south of the United States , which are predominantly inhabited by African Americans . He observed it several times on the banks of the Mississippi River in Louisiana . In New Orleans , he was told that it was brought to San Francisco by colored people . The rules of the game were not handed down by Luschan and nobody seems to have scientifically researched the game.

Warra is likely related to artifacts that were mostly found on former plantations and which, it is believed, were used to play a variant of Mancala. These are buttons in Louisiana (Evergreen Plantation, Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation, Orange Grove (Jefferson Parish) and Oakley Plantation) and polished glass on several plantations in Virginia as well as the Robinson House and Nash Site in Manassas National Battlefield Park near Washington, DC - and ceramic fragments. Fragments of similar shape from 18th century English pottery have also been found at African American sites in Jamaica.

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