Carnival Comelico are very articulate and still full of suggestions.
Each village has its own parade of masks with rich characters like matazins and Lach, equipped with colorful and elaborate hats, belts and shawls or as mascri by bela and mascri old woman from their faces covered by masks Wood . The parade
invades the streets, performing dances in elegant, to the tune of traditional music.
You can see the "
Matazin " and "
Lach ", the beautiful forms of the spouses, doctors and notaries and, conversely, the cheerful company of ugly and blasphemous:
clowns, devils and chimney sweeps with their cowbells
. This included "
Om selvàrech " (wild man), a character shrouded in an aura of sacred and carries a propitiatory value.
"The symbolism and structure in carnivals archaic, but in fact, in some mountain areas, such as in Comelico still alive and authentic - Notes Gianluigi Secco - are very strong and are functional all'augurio a fertile year. The original meaning of propitiation involves and engages the entire community. "
Kit, like life, in the parades of
good and evil
, the community was called upon to represent the two voltages, making a bit 'masks a corollary to the rich character guide, those who were accredited Matazin even a shamanic role. "
Matazin I express authority, power, beauty, fertility and abundance through their clothes, objects and behaviors - explains Dry that the
Mata and archaic character of the carnivals of the Veneto Dolomites has dedicated his latest book, -. The clothing is always so much sought after and often embellished with mirrors and stones, lace, feathers and a stick, a symbol of fertility, which touch the women who wish to have a child. They are responsible for influence, with rituals and spells on the regeneration of nature and a symbol, with the procession of the dead who practice with other forms, the return to life. "Exploding" through music and dance following the notes of old instruments linked to the pastoral world: at the bagpipes, and then the flute, the violin since 1700 and in the second half of 1800, the accordion.
A documentation of Comelico carnivals, with the presence of some carnival costumes, is in the Ethnographic Museum
"The stua" of
Casamazzagno. Particularly beautiful are the faces
wood. The museum, which takes its name from the wood-lined room where the family spent the winter in the warmth of the fireplace masonry, presents a reconstruction of typical rooms of the houses of Comelico and cycles of the most significant work. Casamazzagno The museum is a museum of Comelico cell system, which also includes the small
Museum "The fudina" of Dosoledo
Museum of Culture and the Alpine Comelico of Padola.
is the first exhibition of the whole instrumentation of "Fudina of Faure", from lathe to drill manual traction, from beading to leverage shears and brakes.
These objects testify to the evolution of a very widespread in Comelico, the itinerant tinkers of smiths, known far from the borders of their territory. In the Museum of
Padola instead are reconstructed some traditional production cycles through objects, photographs and detailed model of the craftsman Alberto De Bettin.
