Matances

What is

The slaughter of the pig: domestic winter ritual that brings the family together and produces the sausages of the year (sobrassada, botifarró, camaiot). Today also a public holiday in many towns.

On i quan

• In houses and possessions throughout the island, in winter: fresh meat for Christmas and little work in the fields. Sant Martí (November 11) was a favorite day in Catalonia (Mallorca date to be verified). Public festivals of Matances in several municipalities.

Personatges and objects

• Men kill and dismember; The Matanceres prepare the products (traditional distribution according to Viquipèdia; photo of Matanceres in Son Ferriol).
• Objects: ganivets ganiveteria ; ribella pastera ; morter ; budells (guts); pebre bord (paprika).
• Ball de bot and glosses at the end of the day ball de bot i glosses .

How is

1. Sacrifice and bleeding (the blood, with salt and vinegar, for the botifarró).

2. Scorching and cleaning the skin; emptying; gut cleaning (mocada); cutting.

3. Chopped, marinade with salt and pebre bord.

4. Stuffed in budells; They hang themselves to cure.

5. Collective food and dancing.

Vocabulary

• matances: the slaughter.
• sobrassada: cured minced meat sausage with paprika.
• botifarró: stuffed with blood.
• camaiot: thick sausage in the skin of the leg.
• budells: guts.
• matancera: woman who makes sausages.
• gibrell: bucket for blood.
• pebre bord: paprika.

History

• Annual ritual of the rural domestic economy (to verify old documentation).

Protection

• The sobrassada has PGI “Sobrassada de Mallorca” (please verify date).

Why is it design

• Total use: each part of the animal has a destination.
• Tool chain: knife, ribella, mortar, gut, hook.

For the project

• Inventory of tools from Matances in the Museum of Mallorca, Muro .

Sources

• ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matances
• dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=matança

Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.

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