La Mattanza
€403,00
Description by the artist
Details and dimensions
Materials:
Beech wood Leather Tin
Dimensions (cm): Height 35, Width 35, Depth 5.50
Weight (kg): 0.550
Handcrafted in Sicily
The artwork in the Sicilian culture
By the Governance of Sicilian Artisan Foundation
The mattanza (Almadabra) is the tuna fishing typical of Sicily of the past. Particularly bloody, consisted in caging the tuna in the so-called chambers of death and then kill them with harpoon shots.
(photo) Mattanza, Sicily, Jean-Pierre Houël, 1782
The Governance also suggests
The objective of the Governance is both to safeguard the traditions and ancient crafts of the people of Sicily, and to sustain economically the Artisans and the Artists, both the real ethno-anthropologists of the country.
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