{"id":5661,"date":"2017-09-11T19:08:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T19:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2017-09-11T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T19:08:41","slug":"clown-mask-from-veracruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/clown-mask-from-veracruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Clown mask from Veracruz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I posted 3 more of the masks I acquired in Veracruz over the summer.\u00a0 I thought you might enjoy seeing them.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be posting more, and more from Jalisco (and a few from Estado de Mexico) as well in the next couple of weeks.\u00a0 Aaron, 1215<\/p>\n

A:\u00a0<\/strong> Here is Aaron’s thorough description.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

TITLE:\u00a0Payaso Mask
\nGENERAL REGION: Latin America
\nCOUNTRY:\u00a0Mexico
\nSUBREGION:\u00a0Veracruz
\nETHNICITY:\u00a0Nahua
\nDESCRIPTION: Payaso (Clown) Mask
\nMAKER: Unknown
\nCEREMONY:\u00a0Santo Entierro de Cristo; Fiesta de la Asunci\u00f3n; Carnival
\nAGE: 2013
\nMAIN MATERIAL: wood
\nOTHER MATERIALS:\u00a0oil-based paint
\nSanto Entierro de Cristo<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cSacred Burial of Christ\u201d) is an important festival in parts of Veracruz, particularly in the region of Teocelo, and is celebrated on the last Sunday in January. During the festival, clowns wearing red-nosed masks dance along a parade route, clicking castanets, and accompanying an image of the burial of Jesus of Nazareth. The route proceeds from the local church to a large floral arch dubbed El Calvario<\/em>, where mass is held. The procession is accompanied by drums and trumpets. Sometimes other masked characters, such as animals, tourists, and cartoon characters accompany the parade. \u00a0Such masks are also worn at other celebrations, most prominently Carnival and the Asunci\u00f3n<\/em> (\u201cAssumption,\u201d referring to Jesus\u2019 mother Mary passing into Heaven), held on August 15th. \u00a0This specific mask was worn in all three celebrations from 2014 until 2017.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Q:\u00a0 I posted 3 more of the masks I acquired in Veracruz over the summer.\u00a0 I thought you might enjoy seeing them.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be posting more, and more from Jalisco (and a few from Estado de Mexico) as well in the next couple of weeks.\u00a0 Aaron, 1215 A:\u00a0 Here is Aaron’s thorough description. TITLE:\u00a0Payaso Mask GENERAL REGION: Latin America COUNTRY:\u00a0Mexico SUBREGION:\u00a0Veracruz ETHNICITY:\u00a0Nahua DESCRIPTION: Payaso (Clown) Mask MAKER: Unknown CEREMONY:\u00a0Santo Entierro de Cristo; Fiesta de la Asunci\u00f3n; Carnival AGE: 2013 MAIN MATERIAL: wood OTHER MATERIALS:\u00a0oil-based paint Santo Entierro de Cristo\u00a0(\u201cSacred Burial of Christ\u201d) is an important festival in parts of Veracruz, particularly in the region of Teocelo, and is celebrated on the last Sunday in January. During the festival, clowns wearing red-nosed masks dance along a parade route, clicking castanets, and accompanying an image of the burial of Jesus of Nazareth. The route proceeds from the local church to a large floral arch dubbed El Calvario, where mass is held. The procession is accompanied by drums and trumpets. Sometimes other masked characters, such as animals, tourists, and cartoon characters accompany the parade. \u00a0Such masks are also worn at other celebrations, most prominently Carnival and the Asunci\u00f3n (\u201cAssumption,\u201d referring to Jesus\u2019 mother Mary passing into Heaven), held on August 15th. \u00a0This specific mask was worn in all three celebrations from 2014 until 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","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\/5661","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=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}