Description (Physical description)
Board game, 'The Aztec Castle'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Professor Frederick Starr in 1898.
Event Date 1898
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Starr Catalogue for no. 190: 'The diagram represents a truncated pyramid divided into squares- eight on the lower line, seven on the next, six on the next, five on the next, and four on top. On the lower three lines of squares are ranged twenty-one assailants. Above the pyramid is a rectangule with eight spots in three horizontal lines. Upon it are placed three defenders....'
Event Date 1899
Author: Jazmin Hundal

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Frederick Starr Collection of Mexican Folklore was never catalogued when it came to the museum. Cataloguing was done in 1984 when, by error, some of the items were entered in the 1984 book instead of the Z book. To try to correct this in the simplest way possible, all these numbers were grouped under a single Z number, in addition to the number already given. The remainder of the collection was then given individual Z numbers in the normal way. The collection was examined in 1984 by Dr Charlene Cerny (Director of the Museum of National Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico) and her colleague, Valentin Jacques, both experts on Mexican folk art. Her notes on the collection, together with a xerox of the original catalogue, which has full details on the uses of the various items, is on file. The collection is unusual in being well documented and of such an early date, and is a rare one outside Mexico. Not all the items listed in the original catalogue were found at the time of cataloguing.
Event Date 1984
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Castillo de los Aztecas. Board game titled 'The Aztec Castle', which folds in half. Game features an illustration of a checkered pyramid guarded by defenders. Instructions in Spanish are on either side of the pyramid.
Event Date 22/6/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal