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Description: Wheeled effigies of a sheep and a goat, and a sled in the form of a cow, made from actual animal hides, used for Romanian peasant festivities associated with the period between Christmas and Epiphany. Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania. (Muzeul Ţaranului Român, Bucureşti, România.) See The Masks Customs on the site of that museum for some discussion of related traditions, though these particular artifacts are not mentioned.
Title: MTR animal costumes 02
Credit: Photo by Joe Mabel
Author: Joe Mabel
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