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Mask presented in the cultural ship of the Park Tabasco, in the Fair Tabasco 2004.
Used in the ' it Dances of the Pochó' in the carnival of Tenosique, Tabasco. The Pochó is a series of dances and other ancestral ceremonies, executed well to the compass of a melodious and sad music that symbolizes the man's purification through the fight among the and the bad.
The characters of this dance are those ' cojoes', superior creatures of the nature in who the gods have deposited positive and negative features, act that you/they represent when being placed the masks. It is a return to the innocence by means of a purification act since, at the end, all decide ' to pick up their pasos', that is to say, to retrace their life of reproof acts, and to destroy inside themselves, to the god Pochó, wicked god that he/she wants the destruction of the men for what sends to those “tigers” to eliminate them.
Those “pochoveras” (maidens) they act as mediadoras among “cojoes” and “tigers” and enter “Pochó” and “cojoes”. The " cojoes " uses palm hat covered with flowers and long and fresh leaves of cane, two handkerchiefs tied in the head and the face covered with a wooden mask. They take a henequen sack on the shirt, a towel or cloth on the shoulders, gloves (or socks on the hands), faldilla of dry leaves of chestnut tree interwoven in a rope tied to the waist, and leggings of leaves of banana dry calls “sojol”. they Use several accessories as canes, rattles or “shiquis”, recipients with flour or it dilutes and even obscene objects. The pochoveras dresses hat covered with flowers, white blouse, skirt with stamped flowers, a mantel or paliacate on the shoulders and necklaces.
Source: http://www.uv.mx/popularte/esp/scriptphp.php?sid=620
Picture of the Park Tabasco: http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/Mexico/photo59565.htm |
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