{"id":10305,"date":"2021-02-26T18:26:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T18:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=10305"},"modified":"2021-02-26T18:33:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T18:33:26","slug":"rare-stingray-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/rare-stingray-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare stingray mask?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 A friend gave me this mask when she was moving as I have always admired it. \u00a0 It fits on top of your head rather than over the face. \u00a0It is about 21 inches long by 12 inches wide.\u00a0 It looks like a manta or sting ray.\u00a0 Any info?\u00a0 \u00a0Brad<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10306\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-005-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-005-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-005-822x1024.jpg 822w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-005-768x957.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-005-600x747.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-005.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10307\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-006-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-006-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-006-778x1024.jpg 778w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-006-768x1011.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-006-600x790.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0221-006.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A:\u00a0 I&#8217;m finally back to posting mystery masks. Yours is going to be difficult. I have never seen a stingray mask in my 50-year career of collecting. It is probably from someplace on the Atlantic Coast of West Africa. It seems to be new and and made for the tourist trade. But I can see in a river ceremony a dancer wearing this on the back of his head and then going down and floating in the water. This mask could easily be an rare artifact.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Viewers:\u00a0 I hope some of you will comment.\u00a0 Bob, 1826<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 A friend gave me this mask when she was moving as I have always admired it. \u00a0 It fits on top of your head rather than over the face. \u00a0It is about 21 inches long by 12 inches wide.\u00a0 It looks like a manta or sting ray.\u00a0 Any info?\u00a0 \u00a0Brad A:\u00a0 I&#8217;m finally back to posting mystery masks. Yours is going to be difficult. I have never seen a stingray mask in my 50-year career of collecting. It is probably from someplace on the Atlantic Coast of West Africa. It seems to be new and and made for the tourist trade. But I can see in a river ceremony a dancer wearing this on the back of his head and then going down and floating in the water. This mask could easily be an rare artifact. Dear Viewers:\u00a0 I hope some of you will comment.\u00a0 Bob, 1826<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305","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=10305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10308,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10305\/revisions\/10308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}