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MATACHINES (Span. matachin, clown, or masked dancer)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 875 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MATACHINES (Span. matachin, clown, or masked dancer) , bands of mummers or itinerant players in
Mexico
 , especially popular around the Rio Grande, who wander from
village
  to
village
  during Lent, playing in rough-and-ready style a set drama based on the history of Montezuma. Dressed in fantastic Indian costumes and carrying rattles as their orchestra, the
chief
  characters are El Monarca " the monarch " (Montezuma); Malinche, or Malintzin, the Indian mistress of Hernando
Cortes
 ; El Toro, " the
bull
 ," the malevolent " comic man " of the play, dressed in
buffalo
  skin with the animal's horns on his head; Aguelo, the " grandfather," and Aguela, " grandmother." With the help of a chorus of dancers they portray the desertion of his people by Montezuma, the luring of him back by the wiles and
smiles
  of Malinche, the final reunion of king and people, and the killing of El Toro, who is supposed to have made all the mischief.


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