File:The Dorset Ooser - modern version.JPG
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English: Located in the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, England. The caption next to it reads: "The Ooser. This monstrous wooden mask, a bulls, hair and horns mounted on its low brow, was used to scare people at midwinter gatherings. The original of this model is now lost. It was last seen in Crewkerne, c. 1905. Another was reported at Shillingstone and there may have been many more throughout Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire." |
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This image is of a work of art which is permanently on display in a public place in the UK, namely Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Dorset. Under UK law, Freedom of panorama applies to works of artistic craftsmanship permanently located in a public place (which, by statute, includes places to which the public have access). This image accordingly does not infringe any copyright of the model's creator. See Section 62 of the Copyright, Designs and patents Act 1988.
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