{"id":5683,"date":"2017-10-09T18:39:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T18:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2017-10-09T18:39:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T18:39:36","slug":"flums-carnival-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/flums-carnival-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Flums Carnival Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here is a fine European mask recently acquired by Aaron. The following is written by him.<\/p>\n

COUNTRY:\u00a0Switzerland
\nSUBREGION: Flums
\nETHNICITY:\u00a0Swiss
\nDESCRIPTION: Chrottni Mask
\nMAKER: Margrit Stoop, Flums (1926-?)
\nCEREMONY: Fasnacht\u00a0(carnival)
\nAGE: 1974
\nMAIN MATERIAL: wood
\nOTHER MATERIALS: paint; dyed burlap<\/p>\n

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Fasnacht<\/em>\u00a0is what the Swiss call Carnival. \u00a0In many towns in Austria, southern Germany, Switzerland, and northern Italy,\u00a0local folk don\u00a0elaborate masks and costumes to parade through the town. \u00a0Different towns have variations on the\u00a0parade, such as the Schemenlaufen<\/em> of Imst, the Schellerlaufen<\/em> of Nassereith, and the Muller <\/em>and Matschgerer<\/em>\u00a0of Innsbruck, Austria.\u00a0 In Flums, carnival masks have a distinctive pear shape and tend to have a satirical purpose. The Flums style has been highly influential in neighboring villages.<\/p>\n

This mask is a character known in the local dialect as Chrottni<\/em>, a masculine looking woman who has been suggested to represent a hermaphrodite.\u00a0 The name probably derives from the word Kr\u00f6te<\/em>, a toad.\u00a0 Local legend has it that Chrottni<\/em> lampoons a postman\u2019s wife, who always knew everyone\u2019s business before they themselves did, because she secretly opened the mail.\u00a0\u00a0The type was developed around 1840, and different carvers in Flums give it variants on its expression.\u00a0 Among the five most common expressions, this one is said to represent a Mona Lisa-type smile.\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here is a fine European mask recently acquired by Aaron. The following is written by him. COUNTRY:\u00a0Switzerland SUBREGION: Flums ETHNICITY:\u00a0Swiss DESCRIPTION: Chrottni Mask MAKER: Margrit Stoop, Flums (1926-?) CEREMONY: Fasnacht\u00a0(carnival) AGE: 1974 MAIN MATERIAL: wood OTHER MATERIALS: paint; dyed burlap Fasnacht\u00a0is what the Swiss call Carnival. \u00a0In many towns in Austria, southern Germany, Switzerland, and northern Italy,\u00a0local folk don\u00a0elaborate masks and costumes to parade through the town. \u00a0Different towns have variations on the\u00a0parade, such as the Schemenlaufen of Imst, the Schellerlaufen of Nassereith, and the Muller and Matschgerer\u00a0of Innsbruck, Austria.\u00a0 In Flums, carnival masks have a distinctive pear shape and tend to have a satirical purpose. The Flums style has been highly influential in neighboring villages. This mask is a character known in the local dialect as Chrottni, a masculine looking woman who has been suggested to represent a hermaphrodite.\u00a0 The name probably derives from the word Kr\u00f6te, a toad.\u00a0 Local legend has it that Chrottni lampoons a postman\u2019s wife, who always knew everyone\u2019s business before they themselves did, because she secretly opened the mail.\u00a0\u00a0The type was developed around 1840, and different carvers in Flums give it variants on its expression.\u00a0 Among the five most common expressions, this one is said to represent a Mona Lisa-type smile.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683","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=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5687,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions\/5687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}