{"id":1353,"date":"2013-10-22T17:25:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2015-10-27T21:14:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T21:14:17","slug":"where-is-this-mask-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/where-is-this-mask-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is this mask from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1354\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-570n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1354\" alt=\"My Mystery Mask\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-570n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-570n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-570n-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Mystery Mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Recently I saw this big, unpainted balsa wood mask and instantly fell in love. It was described as an &#8220;Unusual tribal mask of unknown origin.&#8221; It is 10 inches high and about the same width. The carving is thin and very well done. The rod that holds the articulating jaw is of strong vine-like wood. Of course, balsa grows in South and Central America and I vaguely remembered this mythological character from somewhere, so I thought I could ID it. I did the research, but with no success. Can you help? <!--more-->Please click here and write to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I saw this big, unpainted balsa wood mask and instantly fell in love. It was described as an &#8220;Unusual tribal mask of unknown origin.&#8221; It is 10 inches high and about the same width. The carving is thin and very well done. The rod that holds the articulating jaw is of strong vine-like wood. Of course, balsa grows in South and Central America and I vaguely remembered this mythological character from somewhere, so I thought I could ID it. I did the research, but with no success. Can you help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","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=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}