{"id":10003,"date":"2020-11-26T17:38:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T17:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=10003"},"modified":"2020-11-26T17:38:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T17:38:30","slug":"large-old-nepali-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/large-old-nepali-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Large, old Nepali mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Q:\u00a0 Acquired this mask in Kerala, India, in the back warehouse of an antiques dealer. I found it highly unusual, as it features 2 Bhairavs (the wrathful manifestation of \u00a0Shiva ) topped with a carving of the Goddess Kali. I’ve seen many Bhairav masks, as well as double or triple Bhairav masks, but never with Kali at the crown. Undoubtedly Nepali, though I am unsure of the full meaning behind this combination. When I found it it was grey, but after some cleaning it revealed the two lower Bhairavs were red and blue. It is a large mask, measuring 30\u201d \u00a0X \u00a016\u201d \u00a0X 7\u201d deep.\u00a0 David, 1798<\/p>\n

A:\u00a0 Thank you for sharing your very special Himalayan mask with us. I must say you did a great job cleaning it up. Cleaning old masks can be tricky.\u00a0 A\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0 Acquired this mask in Kerala, India, in the back warehouse of an antiques dealer. I found it highly unusual, as it features 2 Bhairavs (the wrathful manifestation of \u00a0Shiva ) topped with a carving of the Goddess Kali. I’ve seen many Bhairav masks, as well as double or triple Bhairav masks, but never with Kali at the crown. Undoubtedly Nepali, though I am unsure of the full meaning behind this combination. When I found it it was grey, but after some cleaning it revealed the two lower Bhairavs were red and blue. It is a large mask, measuring 30\u201d \u00a0X \u00a016\u201d \u00a0X 7\u201d deep.\u00a0 David, 1798 A:\u00a0 Thank you for sharing your very special Himalayan mask with us. I must say you did a great job cleaning it up. Cleaning old masks can be tricky.\u00a0 A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-himalayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10007,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions\/10007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}