{"id":1711,"date":"2014-02-19T23:06:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T23:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2015-10-28T20:26:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:26:50","slug":"a-poor-mans-paragueros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/a-poor-mans-paragueros\/","title":{"rendered":"A poor mans Paragueros"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1712\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-612.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1712\" alt=\"Tlaxcala maybe\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-612.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-612.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-612-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tlaxcala maybe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Your name and e-mail was given to me by a seller on E-bay- &#8220;mask monger.&#8221;\u00a0 I found this mask in a box of things I bought at auction. I&#8217;ve called and e-mailed several different people hoping to learn a little history of this mask, and only mask monger knew anything. He said it might be a Paragueros mask- but told me to ask you. I&#8217;d be very grateful of any advice you could offer, thank you for your time. Tom, 612<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Maskmonger made an interesting guess.<!--more--> Paragueros masks from Tlaxcala are exquisitely made with glass eyes and fine fringe on the forehead. Your mask could be something that a poor, untrained carver did. Looks like some kind of fake eyes were to be glued into those two shallow holes. It has been used and is a wonderful folk art piece. You should enjoy it on your wall&#8230; or try selling it to a Mexican mask collector.\u00a0 <strong>A-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Your name and e-mail was given to me by a seller on E-bay- &#8220;mask monger.&#8221;\u00a0 I found this mask in a box of things I bought at auction. I&#8217;ve called and e-mailed several different people hoping to learn a little history of this mask, and only mask monger knew anything. He said it might be a Paragueros mask- but told me to ask you. I&#8217;d be very grateful of any advice you could offer, thank you for your time. Tom, 612 A: Maskmonger made an interesting guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","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=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3452,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/3452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}