{"id":1992,"date":"2014-08-21T17:31:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:28:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:28:41","slug":"mask-carving-in-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/mask-carving-in-bali\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask carving in Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1993\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-673.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1993\" alt=\"Bali decorative\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-673-213x300.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bali decorative<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have been traveling for 12 years and collected a few masks on the way. Only recently I have looked into my boxes with my stored collection and found this nondescript mask, which I can&#8217;t for the sake of it remember where I bought. Maybe you can help me?\u00a0 Bo, 673<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> This is an unpainted decorative wood carving from Bali done in a combination of styles.<!--more--> I&#8217;ve seen masks from Africa, Nepal and Japan that look a bit like it. Bali is a very small island state of Indonesia where one of the major industries is wood carving. There are hundreds of highly trained people working at this trade. Though a few of their masks are used in the traditional dance dramas, most are sold to tourists and collectors, as was this one.<strong>\u00a0 C<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Q:\u00a0 I have been traveling for 12 years and collected a few masks on the way. Only recently I have looked into my boxes with my stored collection and found this nondescript mask, which I can&#8217;t for the sake of it remember where I bought. Maybe you can help me?\u00a0 Bo, 673 A: This is an unpainted decorative wood carving from Bali done in a combination of styles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bali-java"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","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=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}