{"id":2028,"date":"2014-09-12T20:21:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T20:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:25:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:25:42","slug":"is-this-balinese-mask-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/is-this-balinese-mask-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this Balinese mask old?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2029\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-683.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2029\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-683-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rangda mask\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-683-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-683.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rangda mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hi, my mother recently acquired this mask when a relative passed away, and I was really curious as to what the mask was depicting and how it may have been used. She thinks it is from Bali, but I have no idea. Thank you for your time!\u00a0 Zack, 683<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Your mother is right. It is a beat up Rangda mask that might actually be an antique. <!--more-->But I can&#8217;t be sure. What I do know is that lots of people would enjoy having it on the wall as decorative art. You might want to consider taking some sharp high-res photos of the front, side and rear and send them to someone who deals in Indonesian folk art for an opinion. Who knows, it might be worth something.\u00a0 <strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Hi, my mother recently acquired this mask when a relative passed away, and I was really curious as to what the mask was depicting and how it may have been used. She thinks it is from Bali, but I have no idea. Thank you for your time!\u00a0 Zack, 683 A:\u00a0 Your mother is right. It is a beat up Rangda mask that might actually be an antique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028","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\/2028","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=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3282,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/3282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}