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The Yoruba hide-and-seek game, its sung call-and-response opening, its rules, and the Òrò imagery embedded in the chant that most players no longer connect to the masquerade tradition it names.

A survey of traditional Yorùbá children's games, examining the performance rules, songs, spatial arrangements, and social functions of outdoor recreational play.

Traditional Yorùbá children's chants, game rhymes, and cautionary story-songs documented in play, performance, and communal recreation.