{"id":2088,"date":"2014-11-07T01:07:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T01:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2015-10-25T18:19:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T18:19:59","slug":"blind-mans-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/blind-mans-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind man’s mask"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Q:\u00a0<\/strong> I bought this unusual African mask from a local dealer. \u00a0He told me it was about 100 years old and from the Ivory Coast. \u00a0The seller said it was made by the Yaware tribe and used in ceremonies where the magician needed to enter a very deep trance. \u00a0Apparently the lack of eye holes made that more possible. \u00a0He also said it was very rare and he’d never seen one like it before. \u00a0I’m particularly interested in the mouth with the sharp teeth. \u00a0I’d love to find out what spirits or creature this mask represents and what ceremonies it was used for. \u00a0I tried to google the Yaware tribe but came up with almost nothing. \u00a0The mask has a peculiar, frightening aura about it. \u00a0I’m guessing it might have been used to scare off evil spirits? \u00a0Would LOVE to know more. \u00a0Thank you for any information you can find. \u00a0 Carlo, 697<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 After searching there is little to tell. I could not find anything that looks like this. The Yaure people, also spelled Yaoure and Yohure, are a well known ethic group that lives in Central Ivory Coast, but typical Yaure masks look much different. Let’s hope someone will write in and help us with this. In the meantime you could try some of the specialists in West African art for an opinion. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0 I bought this unusual African mask from a local dealer. \u00a0He told me it was about 100 years old and from the Ivory Coast. \u00a0The seller said it was made by the Yaware tribe and used in ceremonies where the magician needed to enter a very deep trance. \u00a0Apparently the lack of eye holes made that more possible. \u00a0He also said it was very rare and he’d never seen one like it before. \u00a0I’m particularly interested in the mouth with the sharp teeth. \u00a0I’d love to find out what spirits or creature this mask represents and what ceremonies it was used for. \u00a0I tried to google the Yaware tribe but came up with almost nothing. \u00a0The mask has a peculiar, frightening aura about it. \u00a0I’m guessing it might have been used to scare off evil spirits? \u00a0Would LOVE to know more. \u00a0Thank you for any information you can find. \u00a0 Carlo, 697 A:\u00a0 After searching there is little to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","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\/2088","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=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}