{"id":10177,"date":"2020-12-21T21:38:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=10177"},"modified":"2020-12-21T21:38:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:38:55","slug":"old-cowboy-mask-from-guatemala-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/old-cowboy-mask-from-guatemala-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Old cowboy mask from Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151854.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10178\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151854-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151854-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151854-760x1024.jpg 760w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151854-768x1035.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151854-1140x1536.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151854-1520x2048.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151854-600x808.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151854.jpg 1557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a>Q:\u00a0 Fredrico sent scans of five different Guatemalan masks. Perhaps he wanted them appraised. If he wishes, we can give him an estimate.\u00a0 1812<\/p>\n<p>A:\u00a0 Guatemalans all over their little country have practiced masquerade for many hundreds of years&#8230; even to this day. Different characters are portrayed in several popular dances. You can tell who they are by skin color, hair color, whether they have hair on their forehead, face, cheeks, chin, etc. They represent men, women, children, rich, poor, bad, good and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Guatemalan masks are a favorite with collectors. You can see why on this piece.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_152411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10179\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_152411-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_152411-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_152411-741x1024.jpg 741w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_152411-768x1061.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_152411-1112x1536.jpg 1112w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_152411-1140x1574.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_152411-600x829.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_152411.jpg 1480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151918.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10180\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151918-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151918-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151918-796x1024.jpg 796w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151918-768x988.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151918-600x772.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_20201221_151918.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Fredrico sent scans of five different Guatemalan masks. Perhaps he wanted them appraised. If he wishes, we can give him an estimate.\u00a0 1812 A:\u00a0 Guatemalans all over their little country have practiced masquerade for many hundreds of years&#8230; even to this day. Different characters are portrayed in several popular dances. You can tell who they are by skin color, hair color, whether they have hair on their forehead, face, cheeks, chin, etc. They represent men, women, children, rich, poor, bad, good and much more. Guatemalan masks are a favorite with collectors. You can see why on this piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10177","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=10177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10181,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10177\/revisions\/10181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}