{"id":1780,"date":"2014-04-07T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2016-02-18T20:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:50:35","slug":"strange-but-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/strange-but-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange but real"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1781\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1781\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-629.jpg\" alt=\"mystery mask\" width=\"300\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-629.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-629-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">mystery mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hi, can&#8217;t place this one. Family in Africa 1967 on, Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt. I think this bought in Ghana from itinerant trader. Maybe Mali, Upper Volta? Thoughts? Sorry I don&#8217;t have mask, one one picture.\u00a0 John, 629<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this.<!--more--> It seems to be a real cultural artifact and could be important, so let&#8217;s try to find out more. I would start with Mali and Burkina Faso&#8230; but that is just a hunch. Isn&#8217;t there some way you could get more info such as pics of the side and rear, dimensions, etc?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Hi, can&#8217;t place this one. Family in Africa 1967 on, Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt. I think this bought in Ghana from itinerant trader. Maybe Mali, Upper Volta? Thoughts? Sorry I don&#8217;t have mask, one one picture.\u00a0 John, 629 A:\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1780","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\/1780","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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}