Description (Physical description)
Board game, 'Journeys in Mexico' or 'Travellers in Mexico'.
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. 197: 'This geographical game is by the same eminent author as the last [Antonio Garcia y Cubas]. An excellent map of Mexico with railroad, high road, and water-lines of travel marked upon it forms the diagram. Two different journeys are marked out, one for each player. A pool is formed. Plays are determined by dice. The player must give data regarding the places where his piece rests, or lose counts. In passing rivers, a fee is paid for ferriage. At certain prison-points a play is lost, etc.'
Event Date 1899
Author: Jazmin Hundal

Context (Analysis)
Starr Catalogue: 'This geographical game is by the same eminent author as the last [Antonio Garcia y Cubas]. An excellent map of Mexico with railroad, high road and water-lines of travel marked upon it forms the diagram. Two different journeys are marked out, one for each player. A pool is formed. Plays are determined by dice. The player must give data regarding the places where his piece rests, or lose counts. In passing rivers, a fee is paid for ferriage. At certain prison-points a play is lost, etc.'
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)
Los Viajeros en México. Board game titled 'Travellers in Mexico', which folds in half. Game features a map of Mexico with various travel routes drawn across it.
Event Date 24/6/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal