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Makes noise when rotated.", "primary": true }, { "type": "original description", "value": "c" }, { "date": [ { "earliest": 1999, "value": "1999", "latest": 1999, "primary": true } ], "note": [ { "value": "This record is being updated." } ], "source": "Mellor, Mary", "type": "Find Out File", "value": "The matraca (Easter rattle) is made from tin, and brightly painted. These matracas represent a bird & a butterfly, and when they are spun like a football rattle they are very noisy. Matracas are an indispensable feature of Easter Sunday celebrations in Mexico when paper figures of Judas are burnt, accompanied by fireworks and the noisy whirring of the matracas." }, { "historical": true, "type": "description", "value": "Painted tin butterfly toy, known as a mantraca, an Easter rattle. Makes noise when rotated. Bought 1989 by Henry Stobart for the Education Centre.\n\nCULTURAL GROUP: Common throughout Mexico\n\nOLD DESCRIPTION FROM THE USE FIELD: Matracas are part of Easter Sunday celebrations in Mexico when paper figures of Judas are burnt, accompanied by fireworks and the noisy whirring of the matracas. The matraca (Easter rattle) is made from tin, and brightly painted. These matracas represent a bird & a butterfly, and when they are spun like a football rattle they are very noisy. Matracas are an indispensable feature of Easter Sunday celebrations in Mexico when paper figures of Judas are burnt, accompanied by fireworks and the noisy whirring of the matracas." }, { "type": "description", "value": "Painted tin butterfly toy, known as a mantraca, an Easter rattle. Makes noise when rotated. Bought 1989 by Henry Stobart for the Education Centre.\n\nBOOKS: \n\n1.\tThe Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru' SPENCE, Lewis. 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The people taking part in processions can also sometimes use Matracas. \n\n\nThe Holy Week, Semana Santa, is celebrated by processions and festivities throughout Mexico. It begins on Palm Sunday with the Blessing of the Palms, but really gets underway in earnest on Maunday Thursday when in addition to normal church services the re may also be a re enactment of the last supper. Church bells are usually silenced for the 3 days of Easter and people are called to the services by the use of a large wooden clapper also called a Matraca. Good Friday is marked in many towns and villages by the performance of a Passion Play, but it is Easter Saturday that most children look forward to. On Easter Saturday Large paper figures of Judas are stuffed with fireworks and paraded through the town, before being exploded. The noise is added to by the spectators with their Matracas.\nEaster Sunday is the highlight of the week when church attendance is high and there are noisy celebrations in front of the church." }, { "type": "more (online)", "value": "This is the Spanish word for these small toy rattles. It means wren because they are often in the form of a bird." }, { "historical": true, "type": "use", "value": "The Holy Week, Semana Santa, is celebrated by processions and festivities throughout Mexico. It begins on Palm Sunday with the Blessing of the Palms, but really gets underway in earnest on Maunday Thursday when in addition to normal church services there may also be a re enactment of the last supper. Church bells are usually silenced for the three days of Easter and people are called to the services by the use of a large wooden clapper also called a Matraca. 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