{"id":10396,"date":"2021-06-28T00:45:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T00:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=10396"},"modified":"2021-06-28T00:45:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T00:45:53","slug":"northern-rhodesia-mask-now-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/northern-rhodesia-mask-now-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Rhodesia Mask (now Zambia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> My mother ordered this mask from a collector in Northern Rhodesia in 1949. (now Zambia). There is a letter from him and a note in the back mentioning a tribe which I cannot read clearly. Maroshe? Mashona is the only tribe I could find close to that spelling.<\/p>\n<p>It is made of very dense, dark wood and there was at one time hair attached as topnotch and beard? It may have suffered from the many moves of a Navy family over the years, or it may have come like this.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I\u2019m not sure which tribe this mask comes from.\u00a0 Maybe the Makonde people?\u00a0 If you\u2019ve seen a mask like this or if you have any ideas of what tribe the writing on the back of the mask is referring to, please leave us a comment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10398 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0151-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0151-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0151-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0151-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0151-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0151-1140x1520.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0151-600x800.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10399 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0152-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0152-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0152-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0152-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0152-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0152-1140x1520.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0152-600x800.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: My mother ordered this mask from a collector in Northern Rhodesia in 1949. (now Zambia). There is a letter from him and a note in the back mentioning a tribe which I cannot read clearly. Maroshe? Mashona is the only tribe I could find close to that spelling. It is made of very dense, dark wood and there was at one time hair attached as topnotch and beard? It may have suffered from the many moves of a Navy family over the years, or it may have come like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10401,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396\/revisions\/10401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}