{"id":1136,"date":"2010-10-24T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T00:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2011-01-04T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T03:00:15","slug":"the-saltner-of-merano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2010\/10\/24\/the-saltner-of-merano\/","title":{"rendered":"The saltner of Merano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the clothing exhibit at the German National Museum in Nuremburg, there&#8217;s a mannequin entitled &#8216;Weinberg Hats (&#8220;Meraner Saltner&#8221;)&#8217;, dressed in an outrageous costume including an enormous fur and feather hat with foxtails, and a necklace of boar tusks. \u00a0He&#8217;s holding a spear and wearing a big walrus mustache.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the &#8216;<a title=\"Saltner description\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaltern.com\/en\/the-saltner.html\">saltner<\/a>&#8216; is a traditional Tyrolean vineyard-keeper.  His fearsome appearance is supposed to scare away thieves.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The specific outfit on the museum&#8217;s mannequin (dated 1825\/1905) comes from <a title=\"Meran (Merano), Italy\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=46.666667,11.166667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;t=m&amp;q=46.666667,11.166667\">Meran<\/a>, or Merano, in the South Tyrol, now a part of Italy. \u00a0It may be based on an 1870 <a title=\"Saltner from Merano\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/82092378\/Hulton-Archive\">photograph from the Hulton Archive<\/a> which depicts a nearly-identical character.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fischerkeller.it\/Fotos\/Weinmuseum%20Saltner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/images.zeno.org\/Bildpostkarten\/I\/500-771\/MPK04690.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tangram.it\/merano\/img\/saltner1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sagen.at\/doku\/alpenreisen\/saltner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a7\/Saltner_der_Weinberger_in_Festkleidung_19_Jahrhundert.jpg\/334px-Saltner_der_Weinberger_in_Festkleidung_19_Jahrhundert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the clothing exhibit at the German National Museum in Nuremburg, there&#8217;s a mannequin entitled &#8216;Weinberg Hats (&#8220;Meraner Saltner&#8221;)&#8217;, dressed in an outrageous costume including an enormous fur and feather hat with foxtails, and a necklace of boar tusks. \u00a0He&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2010\/10\/24\/the-saltner-of-merano\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-ik","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}