{"id":1388,"date":"2013-10-28T20:41:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T20:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2015-10-26T15:44:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:44:50","slug":"beautiful-discovery-from-the-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/beautiful-discovery-from-the-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful discovery from the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1389\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-574a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1389\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-574a\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-574a.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-574a.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-574a-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Congo (DRC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Dear members of African Arts group. I would like to ask for a help to identify this beautiful and highly expressive mask.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/African_Arts\/photos\/albums\/52889153\">http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/African_Arts\/photos\/albums\/52889153<\/a>\u00a0 I have purchased it as a &#8216;Kwame&#8217; mask, however, my colleague from France suggested possible Zande influence. At the same time there are certain characteristics of Lega visual language articulated here. Thank you very much.\u00a0 David, 574<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> The question was sent to the African_Arts groups first. <!--more-->By now David has received comments from several members on the Northern Congo origin of his beautiful mask. Feel free to join this scholarly Yahoo discussion group if you are seriously interested in African masks. I certainly appreciate being a member. Since I devote time to masks from all over the world, my expertise in any particular culture is quite limited.<\/p>\n<p>Though I have little background in art history, I do claim experience in painting and sculpture. So I want David to know that the carver of his mask displays skill and creativity. In my opinion, it is an original and very fine work of art.\u00a0 <strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Dear members of African Arts group. I would like to ask for a help to identify this beautiful and highly expressive mask.\u00a0 http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/African_Arts\/photos\/albums\/52889153\u00a0 I have purchased it as a &#8216;Kwame&#8217; mask, however, my colleague from France suggested possible Zande influence. At the same time there are certain characteristics of Lega visual language articulated here. Thank you very much.\u00a0 David, 574 A: The question was sent to the African_Arts groups first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","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\/1388","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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}