Chess
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The Chess People of Bishops’ Island Collection #3
Today we would like to share an assortment of photographs of the islanders in their habitat. We particularly like the gentleman wearing knight’s armour sitting at a table, gazing at a strange chess set and pieces. According to some notes written by the team who visited the island, he is the highest rank of the…
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The Chess People of Bishops’ Island Collection #2
Today we return to Bishops’ Island. You can see from these photographs that some members of the tribe are quite short (photographs #4 and #7). The summer of 1892 researchers first wondered if they were children as most islanders wore masks and helmets so weren’t immediately recognisable. However, as the visit went on, they met…
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The Chess People of Bishops’ Island Collection #1
For several hundred years, a fascinating tribe lived on Bishops’ Island, just off the southwest coast of England. They spoke a rare dying language which sounded similar to Welsh. They also rejected any outsider’s attempt to visit with hostility although some researchers did manage to spend time with them in the summer of 1892. The…
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