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

Description (Physical description)
Starr Catalogue for no. 196: 'Three persons participate: one, the narrator, reads the occurrences taking place at the different points reached by the players. Dice determine the movement of pieces which follow along the lines followed by leaders of historical insurrections. This painfully instructive game in Mexican history is the invention of the eminent geographer and historian, Antonio Garcia y Cubas.'
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, 'Insurgents' with booklet of instructions.'
Event Date 12/04/2000
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Los Insurgentes. Board game titled 'The Insurgents', which folds in half (.1). Game features a map of Mexico with colour coded routes that match to the routes of historical insurrections. Illustrations of the leaders of these insurrections are in the top right corner of the board. Game comes with a booklet of instructions in Spanish (.2).
Event Date 22/6/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal