{"id":2366,"date":"2015-02-27T21:45:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T21:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2015-10-28T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:18:48","slug":"battle-of-the-tigres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/battle-of-the-tigres\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Tigres"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Zitlala,<\/a>
Zitlala, Guerrero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Q:<\/strong> This is a mask I got in Guerrero, Mexico some years ago. \u00a0I believe it is “vintage,” because I don’t think they make them out of leather anymore. \u00a0I was told it’s a jaguar for a jaguar dance. \u00a0It’s leather that has been colored in a dark turquoise color, has mirrors for eyes, and projecting whiskers (not sure whether they are organic hair or synthetic) – aprox 6 in. tall.\u00a0 Deborah, 747<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Called a Tigre mask all over Mexico, this one is from Zitlala, Guerro, where they have a special celebration in May where gangs from different barrios in town put on these heavy leather helmets and fight each other with wood sticks.<\/p>\n

I’m told it can get pretty rough. Each gang has its own special color. Most of the masks I’ve seen are yellow (like a real jaguar) or green, but this one is blue and is from my collection. I didn’t use yours because it is very small and made to be a souvenir. The one pictured is the real thing.<\/p>\n

Tigre is Mexican slang for jaguar. The species is no longer found in any part of that country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: This is a mask I got in Guerrero, Mexico some years ago. \u00a0I believe it is “vintage,” because I don’t think they make them out of leather anymore. \u00a0I was told it’s a jaguar for a jaguar dance. \u00a0It’s leather that has been colored in a dark turquoise color, has mirrors for eyes, and projecting whiskers (not sure whether they are organic hair or synthetic) – aprox 6 in. tall.\u00a0 Deborah, 747 A:\u00a0 Called a Tigre mask all over Mexico, this one is from Zitlala, Guerro, where they have a special celebration in May where gangs from different barrios in town put on these heavy leather helmets and fight each other with wood sticks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}