Kolowis Awithlaknannai

Kolowis Awithlaknannai, also called fighting serpents, is a two-player strategy board game from the Zuni Native American people. Stewart Culin described it in Games of the North American Indians (1907), possibly its first publication, and R. C. Bell described it again in Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations (1969). Bell coined the name fighting serpents, perhaps because the black and white pieces start laid out like two serpents. It is a relative of draughts and alquerque, with captures made by jumping over pieces. It is closer to alquerque, since pieces move in any direction from the start with no back row or promotion, and its long narrow board is made of linear patterns instead of squares.