{"id":2126,"date":"2014-12-03T14:29:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T14:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2015-10-26T19:56:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:56:45","slug":"rare-old-indian-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/rare-old-indian-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare, old Indian mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2127\" style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-705.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2127\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-705-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"NE India\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NE India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have had this huge mask for a while and always thought it was from South India (possible Kerala), but recently a friend told me it looks Nepalese to him? With the larger nose possibly a Garuda? I think it may be a form of Shiva as well. Also I am having a heard time dating it. It has for sure been worn and lots of wear and few layers of paint. Ant ideas?\u00a0 Josh, 705<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 You have a wonderful mask here. It is probably from somewhere in northeastern India.<!--more--> I don&#8217;t know who the character is. I have found it difficult to research Indian masquerade. But please don&#8217;t give up. To the right collector this rare, old mask would be quite desirable. And I&#8217;m sure that sometime soon the growing middle-class in India will become more interested the the country&#8217;s history of fabulous folk art. Comments from readers are welcome.\u00a0 <strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I have had this huge mask for a while and always thought it was from South India (possible Kerala), but recently a friend told me it looks Nepalese to him? With the larger nose possibly a Garuda? I think it may be a form of Shiva as well. Also I am having a heard time dating it. It has for sure been worn and lots of wear and few layers of paint. Ant ideas?\u00a0 Josh, 705 A:\u00a0 You have a wonderful mask here. It is probably from somewhere in northeastern India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-himalayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","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=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}