{"id":4170,"date":"2016-05-11T21:56:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T21:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2016-05-11T21:56:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T21:56:22","slug":"payaso-mask-from-the-mountains-of-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/payaso-mask-from-the-mountains-of-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"Payaso mask from the mountains of Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"aaaMystrySolvd-969-a\"<\/a>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> I have recently been to Ecuador and I acquired this mask. It is a Payaso mask from a carver friend in a village of Cotopaxi province. It is a copy of a very old mask in another village at the feet of one of the volcanoes there. The villagers asked the carver to make a copy, so he did \u2013 he made actually two of them, one also for me, luckily. Honestly, it is one of the best recently made and to-be-worn masks I have ever come across; hard pine wood. And it is the only Payaso with a beard and a heart on the forehead \u2013 most other Payasos feature a cross on the forehead, which relates to Christianity. I was told that the heart symbolizes \u201cthe great love the Payaso has for his community fellows\u201d (the Payaso jokes around at festivities \u2013 in the other photo you can see an albeit very patriotic version that I came across). The masking tradition in Cotopaxi is quite alive still, however, at the yearly procession for carnival, I have not anymore spotted many of the great wooden masks. The tradition of wearing wooden masks seems to get lost, slowly.<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I’m so pleased that you sent us these photos. They prove that masquerade is alive and well in many parts of the world. I hope our readers will appreciate how well a mask can be made to feel comfortable to the dancer.\u00a0 A\"aaaMystrySolvd-969-c\"<\/a>\"aaaMystrySolvd-969-b\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0 I have recently been to Ecuador and I acquired this mask. It is a Payaso mask from a carver friend in a village of Cotopaxi province. It is a copy of a very old mask in another village at the feet of one of the volcanoes there. The villagers asked the carver to make a copy, so he did \u2013 he made actually two of them, one also for me, luckily. Honestly, it is one of the best recently made and to-be-worn masks I have ever come across; hard pine wood. And it is the only Payaso with a beard and a heart on the forehead \u2013 most other Payasos feature a cross on the forehead, which relates to Christianity. I was told that the heart symbolizes \u201cthe great love the Payaso has for his community fellows\u201d (the Payaso jokes around at festivities \u2013 in the other photo you can see an albeit very patriotic version that I came across). The masking tradition in Cotopaxi is quite alive still, however, at the yearly procession for carnival, I have not anymore spotted many of the great wooden masks. The tradition of wearing wooden masks seems to get lost, slowly. A:\u00a0 I’m so pleased that you sent us these photos. They prove that masquerade is alive and well in many parts of the world. I hope our readers will appreciate how well a mask can be made to feel comfortable to the dancer.\u00a0 A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","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=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4176,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}