{"id":1560,"date":"2013-12-03T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T16:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2015-10-27T13:19:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T13:19:55","slug":"lawyers-trying-to-stop-another-hopi-mask-auction-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/lawyers-trying-to-stop-another-hopi-mask-auction-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers trying to stop another Hopi mask auction. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/wp-content\/highslide\/highslide-full.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\/\/c26864129df198397e67637af6e7639e\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<link href=\"\/wp-content\/highslide\/highslide.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nhs.graphicsDir = '\/wp-content\/highslide\/graphics\/';\nhs.outlineType = 'rounded-white';\nhs.wrapperClassName = 'draggable-header';\nhs.width = 850;\nhs.height = 700;\nhs.align = 'center';\nhs.dimmingOpacity = 0.75;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1561\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1561\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-590.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1561\" alt=\"Hopi Indian\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-590.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-590.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-590-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hopi Indian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0PARIS (AP) &#8211; The Native American Hopi tribe took a Paris auction house to court Tuesday to try to block the upcoming sale of 32 sacred tribal masks, arguing they are &#8220;bitterly opposed&#8221; to the use as merchandise of sacred objects that represent their ancestral spirits. The Katsinam masks are scheduled for sale at the Drouot auction house on Dec. 9 and 11, alongside an altar from the Zuni tribe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> In the spring of this year a larger collection of Hopi Indian masks was auctioned off in Paris for over a million dollars. <!--more-->You can <a onclick=\"return hs.htmlExpand(this, { objectType: 'iframe' } )\" href=\"\/wp-content\/maskoftheworld_archives\/Native_America\/Native%20Amer%20Hopi%20Mask%202.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click here<\/span><\/a> for our brief blog on that. Three different masks from that sale are shown. The mask illustrated above came from another source. Authentic Hopi items often reflect a high level of creativity, but are not supposed to be sold to collectors or museums. The Indian culture feels strongly about this. Obviously, some French dealers feel just the opposite. How about you?<\/p>\n<p>A reader of the the blog wants us to know about a recent development in the Hopi mask controversy. Please see this article: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/news\/Charity_buys_Indian_masks__returns_them_to_tribes_.html\">http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/news\/Charity_buys_Indian_masks__returns_them_to_tribes_.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0PARIS (AP) &#8211; The Native American Hopi tribe took a Paris auction house to court Tuesday to try to block the upcoming sale of 32 sacred tribal masks, arguing they are &#8220;bitterly opposed&#8221; to the use as merchandise of sacred objects that represent their ancestral spirits. The Katsinam masks are scheduled for sale at the Drouot auction house on Dec. 9 and 11, alongside an altar from the Zuni tribe. A. In the spring of this year a larger collection of Hopi Indian masks was auctioned off in Paris for over a million dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-native-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","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=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}