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Switzerland Tschäggättä In The Lötschental, 1940 (b/w photo)

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Switzerland Tschäggättä In The Lötschental, 1940 (b/w photo)
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Stringer (STR)
Medium
black and white photograph
Date
1940 AD (C20th AD)
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Artist Albert Nyfeler in his studio in Kittel painting wooden masks of Tschaeggaettae. The Tschaeggaettae in the Loetschental valley, Canton Valais, is a carnival custom. The young men of the valley wear masks made of Swiss stone pine, sheep or goat skins and cowbells and perform between 3 February and Gigis Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. Traditionally, they chased women and children and rubbed them with snow, undated recording around 1940.

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Switzerland / Europe / kittel
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