{"id":6307,"date":"2018-03-13T22:20:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T22:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2018-03-13T22:23:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T22:23:16","slug":"tschaggatta-mask-from-swiss-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/tschaggatta-mask-from-swiss-alps\/","title":{"rendered":"Tschaggatta mask from Swiss Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have had this mask in our family for a long time and recently started to do research on it as the misses no longer can stare at it on the wall.\u00a0 It seems to be a Swiss Made, LOTSCHENTALER HEIMARBEIT. That is what’s printed on the back. \u00a0Seems to match up with some late 19th century masks that were\/are worn at a festival in a Swiss Valley.\u00a0 Any idea as to what era and type of mask this is for sure? Is there any collectible market? Do they have estimated or average values?\u00a0 Sean, 1319<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Called a Tsch\u00e4gg\u00e4tta, this carved wooden mask of a frightening figure in L\u00f6tschental, Valais\/Wallis, Switzerland is a favorite tourist souvenir. Despite its small size and flat back, it looks exactly like the real ones that are used at festival time to scare everybody. Probably made in the late 20th century, it is a nice piece of Swiss folk art for the wall. Tell your wife you want to keep it. C<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tsch\u00e4gg\u00e4tta, carved wooden mask of frightening figure in L\u00f6tschental, Rh\u00f4ne valley, Valais \/ Wallis, Swiss Alps, Switzerland<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0 I have had this mask in our family for a long time and recently started to do research on it as the misses no longer can stare at it on the wall.\u00a0 It seems to be a Swiss Made, LOTSCHENTALER HEIMARBEIT. That is what’s printed on the back. \u00a0Seems to match up with some late 19th century masks that were\/are worn at a festival in a Swiss Valley.\u00a0 Any idea as to what era and type of mask this is for sure? Is there any collectible market? Do they have estimated or average values?\u00a0 Sean, 1319 A:\u00a0 Called a Tsch\u00e4gg\u00e4tta, this carved wooden mask of a frightening figure in L\u00f6tschental, Valais\/Wallis, Switzerland is a favorite tourist souvenir. Despite its small size and flat back, it looks exactly like the real ones that are used at festival time to scare everybody. Probably made in the late 20th century, it is a nice piece of Swiss folk art for the wall. Tell your wife you want to keep it. C   Tsch\u00e4gg\u00e4tta, carved wooden mask of frightening figure in L\u00f6tschental, Rh\u00f4ne valley, Valais \/ Wallis, Swiss Alps, Switzerland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6307","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\/6307","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=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6311,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}