Excuse my ignorance, but this is the first time I came across this game. This looks very similar to our Malay and SouthEastAsian traditional "Congkak" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congkak) board game . In fact I have a photo of a congkak board on my flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/mansuramir/4251300770/ here if you want to see the similarities.