{"id":2119,"date":"2014-11-24T20:44:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2015-10-25T18:15:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T18:15:40","slug":"more-from-the-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/more-from-the-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"More from the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2120\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-703.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2120\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-703-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"Congo style\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congo style<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I&#8217;d love your thoughts on this mask I recently bought at auction; it&#8217;s around 30cm in height and made from a fairly light weight wood. Could it be from Congo I wonder? Many thanks in advance.\u00a0 Nicky, 703<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, it could be from the Congo, and possibly from the same area as the Lwalu mask that just came in a few hours ago. So what I said previously applies to your mask as well. <!--more-->But I&#8217;m doubtful about it&#8217;s authenticity. There are large numbers of African masks being made for the tourist trade all over Africa. Follow the same instructions I just gave Machelle. Good luck.\u00a0 <strong>C<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I&#8217;d love your thoughts on this mask I recently bought at auction; it&#8217;s around 30cm in height and made from a fairly light weight wood. Could it be from Congo I wonder? Many thanks in advance.\u00a0 Nicky, 703 A:\u00a0 Yes, it could be from the Congo, and possibly from the same area as the Lwalu mask that just came in a few hours ago. So what I said previously applies to your mask as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119","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\/2119","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=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}