{"id":1823,"date":"2014-05-06T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T13:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2015-10-25T22:55:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T22:55:29","slug":"senufo-or-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/senufo-or-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"Senufo or otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1824\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-637.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1824\" alt=\"French West Africa\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-637.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-637.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-637-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French West Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I recently acquired a neat mask from an antique sale. It&#8217;s quite big, and I believe it&#8217;s all one piece of wood. I was told from the seller it was from West Africa, and is Senufo. Just wondering if you might know any more about it and it&#8217;s authenticity.\u00a0 Jack, 637<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> This is not a typical Senufo mask. The antelope style is more popular with other cultures in the surrounding areas of Mali and Burkina Faso.<!--more--> You might get an answer by going to the African_Arts discussion group at Yahoo. Or maybe one of our readers has an opinion. None the less, it is a large, well proportioned piece that will look great on the wall. Whether it was used, or made for sale and artificially aged, will remain a mystery until you actually take it to an expert.\u00a0 <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I recently acquired a neat mask from an antique sale. It&#8217;s quite big, and I believe it&#8217;s all one piece of wood. I was told from the seller it was from West Africa, and is Senufo. Just wondering if you might know any more about it and it&#8217;s authenticity.\u00a0 Jack, 637 A:\u00a0 This is not a typical Senufo mask. The antelope style is more popular with other cultures in the surrounding areas of Mali and Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","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\/1823","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=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}