Description (Physical description)
Board game, 'Fortune of General Porfiro Diaz'.
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. 195: 'At the centre of the diagram is General Diaz: around it are arranged one hundred incidents, places, or persons figuring in his career. Three dice are used: one small four-sided pyramid and two dodecahedra. The former bears the arithmetical symbols + - x [division symbol] and indicate the operation to be performed with the numbers given by the other two. Moves are made in accordance with the throws. Falling upon a war or pronunciamento advances the player: landing on specific points is unlucky: certain gains on the part of one player involves losses to the other.'
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)
Rachel Hand: 'Slightly dented on outside.'
Event Date 12/4/2000
Author: Jazmin Hundal

Description (Physical description)
Oca General Porfirio Diaz. Board game titled 'Fortune of General Porfirio Diaz', which folds in half. Game features a large illustration of General Diaz surrounded by smaller illustrations of places and people who impacted his career; a corresponding list is on the left side of the board. Instructions in Spanish are at the top of the board. Game is played with two dodecahedral dice (Z 39669.1-2).
Event Date 23/6/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal