Sekkor or Sekar
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- Title (dcterms:title)
- Sekkor or Sekar
- Description (dcterms:description)
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This game was documented by D. N. Majumdar as a game popular amongst the Mundas and Hos of Jharkhand. According to Majumdar Sekar means a top which is used to play the game. The game involves spinning the top using a string which is rounded and tied to the step of the top which is made to spin on its point by pressing it against the ground. This game is played on the ground and the players target the opposing team by topping the top on the ground. This game is also called the rain calling game and it is played by seven players in each team divided into teams of two.
According to another source, mythological source suggests this game was first played between two men and Devils and eventually the early men won. This game is played in peak summer and is believed to bring rain and prevent drought. Made of Kusum wood, the Sekkor, is shaped like a big top with an oval plane cap. A string is wound closely to a pointed base that enables it to be toppled over by the opposing team. This can suggest that there might be variants of the game or the rules might change.
- Alternative Title (dcterms:alternative)
- Sekor, Sekar, Sekkor
- Rules (dcterms:instructionalMethod)
- Playing Sekor
- Creator (dcterms:creator)
- D.N Majumdar and Kulvin Suri
- Source (dcterms:source)
- ‘Some Outdoor and Sedentary games of the Hos of Kolhan’ by D. N Majumdar in Man in India, A Quarterly Record of Anthropological Science special Reference to India, ed Sarat Chandra Roy
- Contributor (dcterms:contributor)
- D.N Majumdar and Kulvin Suri
- Rights (dcterms:rights)
- Creative Commons
- Format (dcterms:format)
- Boardgames
- Medium (dcterms:medium)
- Boardgames on text and video
- References (dcterms:references)
- Man In India Vol.5 by Roy, Sarat Chandra
- The Monsoon Story When raindrops became playmates: Gully cricket, football to Sekor; how monsoon games shaped our childhood (Article)
- Tata Steel's "Sekkor Premier League" concludes at Noamundi
- Spatial Coverage (dcterms:spatial)
- Jharkhand
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- Adrija Mukherjee
