{"id":71507,"date":"2022-04-23T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T09:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/carnival-in-sardiniaorotellithe-masks\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T09:48:07","slug":"carnival-in-sardiniaorotellithe-masks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/an-island-a-continent\/carnival-in-sardiniaorotellithe-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"CARNIVAL IN SARDINIA>OROTELLI>THE MASKS&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=center><a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/7390.html\">carnival in Orotelli<\/a>&nbsp; | the masks | <a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/7392.html\">the scene<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;| <a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/7393.html\">origins and meanings<\/a>&nbsp; | <a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/7394.html\">points of interest<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;| <a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/7395.html\">photo gallery<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>THE MASKS<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 vspace=3 src=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/opsmedia\/jpg\/4806.jpg\" align=right> <\/p>\n<p>Sos thurpos de Oroteddi &#8220;the blind people&#8221; who part take in the carnival of Orotelli, blacken their faces with burnt cork. <\/p>\n<p>Their faces are hidden behind the hoods of su gabbanu which is a heavy coarse woolen overcoat worn by the shepherds during the cold season. This black overcoat is ideally suited to a carnival in which the dominant color is black,. black faces and black clothes prevail. <\/p>\n<p>Over su gabbanu people wear belts with cowbells slung across their shoulders. Under su gabbanu they wear velvet clothes and boot leggings. <\/p>\n<p>However, according to popular tradition and most of all to the memories of a canonical from Orotelli, at the beginning of the century there were not only thurpos but also various other costumes which were called erithajos, tintinnajos and burrajos. <br \/>There were sas mascaras de caddu and sas mascaras de p&#233;. Among these last costumes sos thurpos were the protagonists of a amorphous group who went through the village begging or taking everything needed for the big evening feast. They were renowned for the amount of wine they drank and their dancing. <\/p>\n<p>Everything ended with the funerals of Jorzi, a puppet which still today represents Carnival in many parts of the Island,&nbsp;although not in Orotelli anymore.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- SOURCE 7391.html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>carnival in Orotelli&nbsp; | the masks | the scene&nbsp;&nbsp;| origins and meanings&nbsp; | points of interest&nbsp;&nbsp;| photo gallery&nbsp;&nbsp; THE MASKS Sos thurpos de Oroteddi &#8220;the blind people&#8221; who part take in the carnival of Orotelli, blacken their faces with burnt cork. Their faces are hidden behind the hoods of su gabbanu which is a heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61320,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71507","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71507\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}