{"id":1661,"date":"2014-01-06T22:19:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T22:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2015-10-27T20:36:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T20:36:23","slug":"classic-mask-from-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/classic-mask-from-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic mask from the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1662\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1662\" alt=\"Amazon Indian\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-601.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-601.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-601-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon Indian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I thought you might enjoy seeing the masks I\u2019ve acquired since we last talked. The Wayana mask was hard to find, and I\u2019m being rewarded now with dried leaf flakes scattered all over my house.\u00a0 In the meantime, I\u2019ve been editing my photos from Thailand and Cambodia, which include some amazing antique Khon masks from the National Museum in Bangkok and the Royal Palace and National Museum in Phnom Penh.\u00a0 I\u2019ll show you those when they\u2019re ready \u2013 nothing being produced today even comes close to those old ones.\u00a0 Aaron, 601<\/p>\n<p>A: I love being kept up to date on your acquisitions. <!--more-->It&#8217;s so encouraging to me (and I hope to others who read this blog) that first-rate masks can still me found by serious collectors. I believe this mask is about 5 feet tall from the top to the ground. Called a Tamoko, it is made by the Wayana-Apalay people who live in the northeastern part of the Amazon rain forest.<\/p>\n<p>Please send the Khon mask pics when you can and I&#8217;ll share one of them on the blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought you might enjoy seeing the masks I\u2019ve acquired since we last talked. The Wayana mask was hard to find, and I\u2019m being rewarded now with dried leaf flakes scattered all over my house.\u00a0 In the meantime, I\u2019ve been editing my photos from Thailand and Cambodia, which include some amazing antique Khon masks from the National Museum in Bangkok and the Royal Palace and National Museum in Phnom Penh.\u00a0 I\u2019ll show you those when they\u2019re ready \u2013 nothing being produced today even comes close to those old ones.\u00a0 Aaron, 601 A: I love being kept up to date on your acquisitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","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\/1661","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=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}