Disfraz de Carnaval
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1980
notes: label: Description
content: This homemade costume was made for the Ponce carnival. It has a cape attached at the neck made from the same black and red striped fabric (black and red are the colors of the city of Ponce). Carnival participants who wear costumes like this one, in addition to a mask, and other carnival accoutrements like matching shoes, canes, and gloves, are called <i>vejigantes</i>. <i>Vejigantes</i> are famous for playfully swatting at carnival-goers with a <i>vejiga</i>, a dried, inflated bladder. When a real animal bladder in not available, an empty water bottle is an acceptable substitute.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: Este disfraz casero se confeccionó para el carnaval de Ponce. Lleva una capa adherida al cuello, hecha del mismo género de franjas negras y rojas (el negro y el rojo son los colores de la ciudad de Ponce). A los participantes del carnaval que visten trajes como éste -además de la máscara y otros accesorios, como calzado haciendo juego, bastones y guantes- se los llaman vejigantes. Los vejigantes son famosos por deambular por las calles dando palmadas con sus vejigas (vejigas infladas y secas) a los concurrentes a la celebración. En caso de no contarse con vejigas reales de animales, se aceptan como sustitutos botellas de agua vacía.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Puerto Rico
title: label: Title
content: Carnival Costume
topic: label: Subject
content: Carnivals
label: Subject
content: Costume
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Vidal
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Teodoro Vidal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0097.0047
label: accession number
content: 1997.0097
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0097.0047
objectType: label: Object Name
content: costume
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: textile; cotton; metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 160 cm x 152 cm; x 63 in x 59 13/16 in