BY STEWART CULIN , Director of the Museum of Archæology and Palæontology, University of Pennsylvania . From the Report of the U. S. National Museum for 1894, pages 595-607, with plates 1-5 and figures 1-15. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1896. MANCALA, THE NATIONAL GAME OF AFRICA. BY STEWART CULIN, Director of the Museum of Archæology and Palæontology, University of Pennsylvania ....

By Stewart Culin , Director of the Museum of Archæology and Palæontology, University of Pennsylvania . [1] Read before the Oriental Club of Philadelphia, May 10, 1894. The comparative study of games is one that promises an important contribution to the history of culture. The questions involved in their diffusion over the earth are among the vital ones that confound the ethnologist. Their origins are lost in the unwritten history of the childhood of man. Mancala is a game that is remarkable for