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

Description (Physical description)
Starr Catalogue for no. 192: 'This "military game" bears the name of a date famous in Mexico for a glorious victory. It is a game of siege, in general plan like [Starr Coll. 189-192]. The diagram presents sixty-four spots arranged around a central "plaza", which has five spots marked with stars....'
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)
T. Cotterill: 'Board game with folded pamphlet of instructions.'
Event Date 12/04/2000
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
El 2 de Abril. Board game titled 'Second of April', which folds in half (.1). Game features a square grid with rounded edges, intersected by smaller squares, red dots, and red stars. An image of a Mexican city is in the centre of the grid. Game comes with a paper booklet with instructions written in Spanish (.2).
Event Date 22/6/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal