Chapayeca mask handcrafted in tanned leather, painted with enamel, and hair and horsehair applications. His appearance is anthropomorphic with grotesque purposes, he has a hook-shaped nose, crooked teeth, and ears that resemble those of a bat painted red.
\nIt is used by members of the Order of the Chapayecas or Pharisees throughout Lent. The reason for its appearance is to represent those who, according to the Catholic religion, killed Jesus: Jews and Roman soldiers. There is a great diversity of chapayeca masks, since each of them, in addition to representing the Pharisees, also symbolizes the sins of the members of the community. Through the mask, other aspects of the person who represents it can be known, for example, if it brings a large feather, the person, in addition to being a chapayeka, is a matach\u00edn or matach\u00edn musician; if he brings monkfish naka (colored flecks) it means that he is also an “ophysio” (being a pascola dancer, deer dancer, “tampaleo” or pascola drummer, deer singer or violinist).<\/p>\n
This particular mask was made by an artisan for display purposes in the museum, the reason for this being that all the original masks are burned on Holy Saturday at the Judas bonfire, a ritual of purification.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":490,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-321","tnc_col_310_item","type-tnc_col_310_item","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tnc_tax_118-ceremonial-mask","tnc_tax_87-religion-and-culture-sonora-mexico-state-holy-week","tnc_tax_87-religious-dance-mexico","tnc_tax_87-sculpture-mexico-ethnic-groups","tainacan-item-single-page"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redescubramossonora.mx\/museumoftheyaquis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_310_item\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redescubramossonora.mx\/museumoftheyaquis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_310_item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redescubramossonora.mx\/museumoftheyaquis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tnc_col_310_item"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redescubramossonora.mx\/museumoftheyaquis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redescubramossonora.mx\/museumoftheyaquis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_310_item\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/redescubramossonora.mx\/museumoftheyaquis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tnc_col_310_item\/321\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redescubramossonora.mx\/museumoftheyaquis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redescubramossonora.mx\/museumoftheyaquis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}