{"id":10472,"date":"2021-09-05T20:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T20:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=10472"},"modified":"2021-09-05T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T20:30:25","slug":"dayak-mask-from-borneo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/dayak-mask-from-borneo-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayak Mask from Borneo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I found this carved wood mask in a consignment store several years ago. It is 20 inches long, has an articulated mouth and holes along the open edge in back to hold bark strips or hair. There are no modern materials used, no wire or nails. Just wondering if you knew where it might be from.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>:\u00a0 I had to reach out to Aaron of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maskmuseum.org\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MaskMuseum.org<\/a> for help identifying this mask.\u00a0 We believe that this might be an authentic Dayak mask from Borneo.\u00a0 Aaron also informs me that we can&#8217;t be sure if it&#8217;s authentic because there have been quite a few re-created (fake) Dayak masks coming out of Bali and Java. I give this a <strong>B+<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10475\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9846076C-BE0F-4C99-90C2-95635D991B18-300x274.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9846076C-BE0F-4C99-90C2-95635D991B18-300x274.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9846076C-BE0F-4C99-90C2-95635D991B18-1024x936.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9846076C-BE0F-4C99-90C2-95635D991B18-768x702.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9846076C-BE0F-4C99-90C2-95635D991B18-1140x1042.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9846076C-BE0F-4C99-90C2-95635D991B18-600x548.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/9846076C-BE0F-4C99-90C2-95635D991B18.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10473\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/28EB2B9E-2C40-4418-9B82-9BD11CF36C80-300x198.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/28EB2B9E-2C40-4418-9B82-9BD11CF36C80-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/28EB2B9E-2C40-4418-9B82-9BD11CF36C80-1024x677.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/28EB2B9E-2C40-4418-9B82-9BD11CF36C80-768x508.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/28EB2B9E-2C40-4418-9B82-9BD11CF36C80-1140x753.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/28EB2B9E-2C40-4418-9B82-9BD11CF36C80-500x330.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/28EB2B9E-2C40-4418-9B82-9BD11CF36C80-600x397.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/28EB2B9E-2C40-4418-9B82-9BD11CF36C80.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I found this carved wood mask in a consignment store several years ago. It is 20 inches long, has an articulated mouth and holes along the open edge in back to hold bark strips or hair. There are no modern materials used, no wire or nails. Just wondering if you knew where it might be from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10472","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=10472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10477,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10472\/revisions\/10477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}