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TRADITIONS & UTENSILS

 

 

 

  mahk khum

 

Thailand

Mahk khum, a traditional board game played with marbles or fruit stones and consisting of a elongated wooden boat-like panel with tapering ends and fourteen cavities.

 

These cavities are arranged two by two, in a double row of seven indentions each, and flanked by two larger cavities to collect the winning pieces and which are known as hua meuang or reuan, the ‘village heads’ or ‘home [base]’.