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Listen: The Blues ProgramNicaraguan American Jose Silva dressed as the mandador, or Spanish commander, for the Nicaraguan Toro Huaco pageant - Pembroke Pines, Florida
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Photographer
Date
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Collection
Series 1640, Folk Arts Apprenticeship Slides: 1994-1995 ; Box 18
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Ethnicity, Nicaragua
Clothing, Latin American and Caribbean
Community culture--Florida--Broward County--Pembroke Pines
Ethnic costume
Dance costume
Costume
Headgear
Clothing and dress
Manners and customs
Masks
Ethnic arts
Male dancers
Entertainers--Florida--Broward County--Pembroke Pines
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic American men--Florida--Broward County--Pembroke Pines
Material culture--Florida--Broward County--Pembroke Pines
Hispanic American arts
Personal Subjects
Physical Description
General Note
Silva moved to Miami in 1979 from Diriamba, Nicaragua, where he learned toro huaco. He is responsible for reviving the traditional dance for Miami's Nicaraguan community Festival of San Sebastian, which is held on the Sunday closest to January 21.
In the toro huaco, a dancer with a kite-like mask that portrays a bull charges and retreats from another dancer wearing a mask with white skin, blond hair, blue eyes, and metallic vestments which portrays a mandador, or European commander. The tradition comes from the descendants of Nagual natives and parodies the clash of cultures in Central America 450 years ago.
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