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Sword Dancers in Mason
If you’ve had the happenchance to be in your home on a fall afternoon and heard some drums beating from downtown Mason, you are not hearing the Mighty Mason Puncher Band. It will most likely be the drums beating from the DANZA AZTECA TONANTZIN, the matachines (ma-ta-chee-nes) procession. The matachines are a dance troupe that adorns themselves in brightly colored ritual attire called bouffon.
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