{"id":1644,"date":"2013-12-30T20:28:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T20:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2015-10-26T02:20:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T02:20:56","slug":"tourist-junk-can-be-desirable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/tourist-junk-can-be-desirable\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist junk can be desirable"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1645\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1645\" alt=\"Commercial Guro\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-599-232x300.jpg\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commercial Guro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I found this mask at Goodwill. It is carved from one piece of dark wood. 18&#8243; x 6&#8243;. There is red color under the black where it has chipped off. It had a string in back and looks like it was a wall hanger.\u00a0 Rob, 599<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> You have a Guro (a tribe from Ivory Coast, West Africa) tourist mask.<!--more--> I think it looks pretty good despite its poor condition. You can find lots of better ones on the market, though not always at a fair price. The craftsmen who make these masks are highly skilled and often quite artistic. I know people who specialize in collecting these commercial Guro masks. Usually very handsome in color combinations and finish, the headdresses come in a surprising number subjects.\u00a0 <strong>C<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I found this mask at Goodwill. It is carved from one piece of dark wood. 18&#8243; x 6&#8243;. There is red color under the black where it has chipped off. It had a string in back and looks like it was a wall hanger.\u00a0 Rob, 599 A: You have a Guro (a tribe from Ivory Coast, West Africa) tourist mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","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\/1644","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=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}