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Child’s kurent costume
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20. March 2020
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Child’s kurent costume

The child’s Carnival costume of a Haloze horned kurent from the village of Lancova vas consists of a sheepskin head covering with horns, a sheepskin coat, bells, a hedgehog stick and green leg warmers.

Four handkerchiefs are tied to the hedgehog stick. A white handkerchief with a wine red and grey border shows the logotype of the 51st kurentovanje Ptuj 2011, with the signature of Andreja Čelan, the wife of the then mayor of the Municipality of Ptuj, The Rounds of the kurenti are inscribed in the national Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage and since 2017 appear on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.