Disfraz de Carnaval
- Description
- 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 vejigantes. Vejigantes are famous for playfully swatting at carnival-goers with a vejiga, a dried, inflated bladder. When a real animal bladder in not available, an empty water bottle is an acceptable substitute.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- costume
- Date made
- ca 1980
- Physical Description
- textile; cotton; metal (overall material)
- cotton (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 160 cm x 152 cm; x 63 in x 59 13/16 in
- place made
- Puerto Rico
- ID Number
- 1997.0097.0047
- accession number
- 1997.0097
- catalog number
- 1997.0097.0047
- subject
- Carnivals
- Cultures & Communities
- Puerto Rico
- Costume
- Vidal
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Ethnic
- Vidal
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Title
- Carnival Costume
- Credit Line
- Gift of Teodoro Vidal
Visitor Comments