{"id":1680,"date":"2014-01-26T16:05:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T16:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2016-02-18T19:11:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:11:40","slug":"nice-mask-from-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/nice-mask-from-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice mask from Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1681\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-606.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1681\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-606.jpg\" alt=\"Marka\" width=\"300\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-606.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-606-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> I picked this and another mask up in Mali some years ago. Don&#8217;t know anything about it. Made of a fairly heavy dark wood and inset with what looks like bone or polished kernel and colored beading.\u00a0 Any info greatly appreciated.\u00a0\u00a0 Rick, 606<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Thanks for the pic of the lovely mask, despite that strong background it must compete with.<!--more--> It is from the Marka people of Mali, West Africa. I think it would show beautifully on a plain white wall. Marka masks often have other materials applied to the wood surface, frequently tin and brass sheeting. Beads, shells, and ornaments are also used.<strong> B+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I picked this and another mask up in Mali some years ago. Don&#8217;t know anything about it. Made of a fairly heavy dark wood and inset with what looks like bone or polished kernel and colored beading.\u00a0 Any info greatly appreciated.\u00a0\u00a0 Rick, 606 A: Thanks for the pic of the lovely mask, despite that strong background it must compete with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","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\/1680","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=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3900,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/3900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}