{"id":19906,"date":"2025-03-06T12:25:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/others\/historical-pieces\/cangas-de-luxo\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:59:11","slug":"cangas-de-luxo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/en\/others\/historical-pieces\/cangas-de-luxo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cangas de luxo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 40%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><p data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"417\">On Terceira Island, ox yokes such as this one, forming part of the Ethnography collection of the Museum of Angra do Hero\u00edsmo, were reserved for festive occasions, assuming a role of social representation, in this case reflecting the status of the farmer and landowner, usually reinforced by the engraving of a name and a date.<\/p>&#13;\n<p data-start=\"419\" data-end=\"749\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The Terceira ethnographer Lu\u00eds da Silva Ribeiro considers these luxury yokes, profusely decorated with geometric and symbolic motifs carved with a knife or chisel and with brass studs, to be among the highest expressions of the \u201cartistic work\u201d of the people of Terceira, linking them to symbols evoking magical-religious powers.<\/p><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/banner-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12273 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/banner-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/museu-angra.cultura.azores.gov.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/banner-2-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Terceira Island, ox yokes such as this one, forming part of the Ethnography collection of the Museum of Angra do Hero\u00edsmo, were reserved for festive occasions, assuming a role of social representation, in this case reflecting the status of the farmer and landowner, usually reinforced by the engraving of a name and a date. 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