{"id":1414,"date":"2013-11-03T23:17:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T23:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2015-10-27T20:34:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T20:34:26","slug":"rich-masquerade-in-the-andes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/rich-masquerade-in-the-andes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich masquerade in the Andes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1416\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-5781.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1416\" alt=\"Andes Mountains costume\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-5781.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-5781.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-5781-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andes Mountains costume<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I would really appreciate your help identifying the mystery mask and costume.\u00a0 I bought these for $100 total from a guy who said they were from Peru.\u00a0 The back is as fancy as the front.\u00a0 I see some Ecuadorian (Diablo Umo-type) characteristics here, but I admit this thing is a total mystery to me.\u00a0 Nothing I\u2019ve seen or read about remotely resembles it.\u00a0 Any ideas?\u00a0 Aaron, 578<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Peru sounds right to me.<!--more--> All of the Quechua-speaking cultures that stretch from the mountains of Colombia, thru Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.are heavily into decorative masquerade. Of course, there are differences in the masks and costumes as you go through 2000 miles of the Andes. I have not seen this particular costume before but it&#8217;s not that much different from what you would see at carnaval in Ecuador or Bolivia. It is<\/p>\n<p>a great find. You continue to amaze me. And remember to let me know when you see something you don&#8217;t need.\u00a0<strong> A<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I would really appreciate your help identifying the mystery mask and costume.\u00a0 I bought these for $100 total from a guy who said they were from Peru.\u00a0 The back is as fancy as the front.\u00a0 I see some Ecuadorian (Diablo Umo-type) characteristics here, but I admit this thing is a total mystery to me.\u00a0 Nothing I\u2019ve seen or read about remotely resembles it.\u00a0 Any ideas?\u00a0 Aaron, 578 A: Peru sounds right to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","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=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}