{"id":1528,"date":"2013-11-19T22:08:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T22:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2015-10-26T15:37:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:37:53","slug":"old-big-round-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/old-big-round-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Old big round mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1529\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-584.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1529\" alt=\"Old Ghana?\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-584.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-584.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-584-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Ghana?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Q: I&#8217;m totally ignorant about masks, but my father found this in a garage here in Italy and now I would like some informations about it. I looked into your website for similar masks, but I haven&#8217;t found anything identical. Can you please tell me from which part of the world it comes? The dimensions are 60&#215;50 (cm) and it&#8217;s made of wood.\u00a0 Alexandru, 584<\/p>\n<p>A: Being the Mask Man is a humbling experience. <!--more-->Often I&#8217;m confronted with masks that are complete strangers to me. Though unrecognizable, they usually appear to be made for sale to tourists. Not this one. It\u00a0 could be old and real&#8211; but from where? 55 cm in diameter is very big! It is carved out on the back and has some depth. My guess is it&#8217;s an early Odo Ntease from the Akan people of Ghana. The African_Arts group on Yahoo might be able to confirm this. <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I&#8217;m totally ignorant about masks, but my father found this in a garage here in Italy and now I would like some informations about it. I looked into your website for similar masks, but I haven&#8217;t found anything identical. Can you please tell me from which part of the world it comes? The dimensions are 60&#215;50 (cm) and it&#8217;s made of wood.\u00a0 Alexandru, 584 A: Being the Mask Man is a humbling experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","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\/1528","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=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}