{"id":1868,"date":"2014-06-02T13:23:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2015-10-26T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:51:37","slug":"a-smile-from-the-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/a-smile-from-the-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"A smile from the Himalayas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1869\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-644.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1869\" alt=\"Monpa people?\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-644.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-644.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-644-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monpa people?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1870\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-644s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1870\" alt=\"Nepalese seal?\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-644s.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nepalese seal?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Q:\u00a0 i bought this mask at a thrift shop in victoria bc. Thought it was westcoast carving, then looked online and it seems to fit with the monpa primitive theme. Saw a similar one that was nicknamed &#8216;joker&#8217; on the zemanek site. Is it monpa and what sort of age would it be. It has a red wax seal or stamp in it\u00a0\u00a0 Walter, 644<\/p>\n<p>A:\u00a0 It is a primitive Himalayan mask. <!--more-->Only a few of them are carved with smiles. Let&#8217;s attribute it to the Monpa people in mountainous Arunachal Pradesh. I have seen masks like this from Nepal and far to the east Himachal Pradesh. The red wax seal I used to see on mask from Nepal, where they tried taxing them for a few years. I wonder if those seals are used in other areas. Age and authenticity can only be determined by an expert. I won&#8217;t value this mask because authenticity has not been determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 i bought this mask at a thrift shop in victoria bc. Thought it was westcoast carving, then looked online and it seems to fit with the monpa primitive theme. Saw a similar one that was nicknamed &#8216;joker&#8217; on the zemanek site. Is it monpa and what sort of age would it be. It has a red wax seal or stamp in it\u00a0\u00a0 Walter, 644 A:\u00a0 It is a primitive Himalayan mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-himalayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","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=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}