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

MATACHINES (Span. matachin, See also:
CLOWN (derived by Fuller, in his Worthies, from Lat. colones, a husbandman; but apparently connected with " clod " and with similar forms in Teutonic and Scandinavian languages)
clown, or masked dancer) , bands of See also:

MUMMERS

mummers or itinerant players in See also:

Mexico, especially popular around the Rio Grande, who wander from See also:

VILLAGE

village to village during See also:

LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")

Lent, playing in rough-and-ready See also:

style a set See also:

DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama based on the See also:

HISTORY

history of Montezuma. Dressed in fantastic See also:

INDIAN

Indian costumes and carrying rattles as their See also:

ORCHESTRA (Fr. Orchestre; Ger. Kapelle, Orchester; Ital. Orchestra)

orchestra, the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief characters are El Monarca " the monarch " (Montezuma); Malinche, or Malintzin, the Indian See also:

MISTRESS

mistress of Hernando See also:

Cortes; El See also:

TORO

Toro, " the See also:

bull," the malevolent " comic See also:

man " of the See also:

PLAY

play, dressed in See also:

BUFFALO

buffalo skin with the See also:

animal's horns on his See also:

head; Aguelo, the " grandfather," and Aguela, " grandmother." With the help of a See also:

CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z

chorus of dancers they portray the See also:

DESERTION

desertion of his See also:

PEOPLE

people by Montezuma, the luring of him back by the See also:

WILES, IRVING RAMSAY (1861- )

wiles and See also:

SMILES, SAMUEL (1812-1904)

smiles of Malinche, the final See also:

REUNION

reunion of See also:

king and people, and the killing of El Toro, who is supposed to have made all the See also:

MISCHIEF

mischief.

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