{"id":1392,"date":"2013-10-29T16:33:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2015-10-26T20:56:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:56:16","slug":"primitive-shamans-mask-from-the-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/primitive-shamans-mask-from-the-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"Primitive shaman&#8217;s mask from the Himalayas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-575.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1393\" alt=\"Himachal Pradesh\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-575.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-575.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-575-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong> I bought this mask from an old Tibetan refugee merchant in Dharamsala last month. He didn&#8217;t speak much English, but claimed that this mask was from Tibet and that it is more than hundred years old. I took this information with a grain of salt. To me, it does not look particularly Tibetan and what comes to it&#8217;s age, it seems quite impossible to tell, but looks a bit newer. It is very crudely crafted and quite unlike any of the other masks I saw around. Quite heavy and of hard wood. I\u00a0 liked it&#8217;s strangeness and bought it for a reasonable asking price.\u00a0 Aki, 575<!--more--><strong>A:<\/strong> I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s from Tibet either. Masks like this are made in the Outer Himalayas all the way to east Nepal, but not in Tibet. After searching I found several from Himachal Pradesh with those same slanted eyes. So your mask may not have traveled far at all. I would call it a rural shaman&#8217;s mask from Himachal Pradesh, India. Saying that it is old or used would be difficult.\u00a0 <strong>B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I bought this mask from an old Tibetan refugee merchant in Dharamsala last month. He didn&#8217;t speak much English, but claimed that this mask was from Tibet and that it is more than hundred years old. I took this information with a grain of salt. To me, it does not look particularly Tibetan and what comes to it&#8217;s age, it seems quite impossible to tell, but looks a bit newer. It is very crudely crafted and quite unlike any of the other masks I saw around. Quite heavy and of hard wood. I\u00a0 liked it&#8217;s strangeness and bought it for a reasonable asking price.\u00a0 Aki, 575<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-himalayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","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=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}