Grimaces on a house in Stotzheim (near Euskirchen, Eifel area, western Germany)
(November 2006)
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"Selfie"
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East Asian masks in the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum of Ethnography (Cologne)
(May 2019)
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Seen at a house in Limburg/ Lahn (Hessen)
(September 2021)
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A so-called "Grinkopf" in the vaulted cellar of the Brungs wine house in Cologne's old town.
These grimaces originally stood on the gables of trading houses. Ropes were stretched through their mouths, which were used to hoist goods up to the storerooms in the attic.
(December 2019)
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