{"id":1988,"date":"2014-08-18T21:01:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T21:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2015-10-25T18:36:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T18:36:34","slug":"beautiful-west-african-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/beautiful-west-african-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful West African mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1989\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-671.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1989\" alt=\"Baule, Ivory Coast\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-671-228x300.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-671-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-671.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baule, Ivory Coast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> Hello,<br \/>\nI have this African mask, but I am unsure<br \/>\nof its tribal attribution. Can you or any of your visitors assist? Thank you very much!\u00a0 Andrew, 671<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Looks like a Baule or Guro mask from the Ivory Coast of West Africa. <!--more-->From your photos it appears to be an authentic, used mask. The masks made for trade usually have more elaborate coiffures or fancy objects on top. It just looks good to me!<\/p>\n<p>Can you tell us more about it? Where you got it? How much you paid? Etc? Inquiring minds want to know.\u00a0<strong> A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Hello, I have this African mask, but I am unsure of its tribal attribution. Can you or any of your visitors assist? Thank you very much!\u00a0 Andrew, 671 A:\u00a0 Looks like a Baule or Guro mask from the Ivory Coast of West Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","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\/1988","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=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}