{"id":10404,"date":"2021-07-13T17:18:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2021-07-13T17:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:22:28","slug":"java-monkey-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/java-monkey-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Java Monkey Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I purchased this from an antique store for $75. Carved from a single piece of wood with a small purple gemstone inset on the forehead. Measures approximately 9 inches from forehead to chin, about 5.5 inches deep, and 5.5 inches across. Store owner said she purchased as part of a lot of masks from a collector at auction. Was labeled as possible exorcism mask from Nepal. &#8211; <em>Shannon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A: This is a monkey mask from Java.\u00a0 Oftentimes the monkey character will provide comic relief during traditional dance dramas.\u00a0 After seeing the back of the mask, I think this mask made for display versus usage but I think it would look great displayed on your wall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10407\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey2-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey2-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey2-1024x844.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey2-768x633.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey2-1536x1265.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey2-2048x1687.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey2-1140x939.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey2-600x494.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10408\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey3-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey3-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey3-787x1024.jpg 787w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey3-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey3-1180x1536.jpg 1180w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey3-1573x2048.jpg 1573w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey3-1140x1484.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey3-600x781.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Java_Monkey3.jpg 1908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I purchased this from an antique store for $75. Carved from a single piece of wood with a small purple gemstone inset on the forehead. Measures approximately 9 inches from forehead to chin, about 5.5 inches deep, and 5.5 inches across. Store owner said she purchased as part of a lot of masks from a collector at auction. Was labeled as possible exorcism mask from Nepal. &#8211; Shannon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bali-java"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404","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=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10412,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions\/10412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}