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Transcription: [01:34:02]

[[Laughing]]

{SPEAKER name="Dan Sheehy"}
Well, when he was a young fellow, there was, there was an older woman in his neighborhood who made these masks

[[Cross talk]]

{Unknown Speaker 1}
[[Side conversation in Spanish]]
[[inaudible]]

{SPEAKER name="Miquel"}
[[speaking in Spanish]]
--incapacitada.
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{SPEAKER name="Dan Sheehy"}
Yeah. She was an invalid. That's a good word for it right. She was invalid, but she made these masks. This was mainly, one of her main ways of surviving, really, of making a living enough money, to buy food just to get along.
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{SPEAKER name="Dan Sheehy"}
So, so, Miguel here, linked up with this lady and helped her in her efforts to not only to make them, but to sell the masks as well.
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{SPEAKER name="Dan Sheehy"}
Of course, this is seasonal, you know. If you go over there to the crafts area, where these artists are, you can see the dress of the vejigante, this medieval character that still exists, lives on today in the 20th century Puerto Rico.
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{SPEAKER name="Dan Sheehy"}
There's a kind of a suit, the mask in front and then this big cult painted vejiga, And this happens around Carnival. In fact,
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{SPEAKER name="Dan Sheehy"}
that's what the purpose of the whole thing it's part of Carnival, which is in February. So every year this cyclical events, having to do with mask-making,
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{SPEAKER name="Dan Sheehy"}
would happen, and Miguel would tie into that helping this older woman there in Ponce. Now they are from-- [[tape goes blank]]
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Transcription Notes:
vejigante