Warri is the most popular mancala game played in the northern part of Haiti. It is named after the bush of which the seeds are used in play. Adults play Warri on wooden boards, which have a large hole at each end to store the captured seeds. Children, both boys and girls, dig the boards in the ground. Warri was first described in 1952 by Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain (1898-1975), the first anthropologue of Haiti. She researched mancala games on Haiti and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (see Mangola).