{"id":2183,"date":"2014-12-26T23:54:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T23:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2015-10-25T18:06:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T18:06:33","slug":"the-price-of-african-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/the-price-of-african-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"The price of African masks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dan, Ivory Coast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bought this at garage sale..it looks and feels old and authentic. Made of wood and fabric and shells.\u00a0 Robbie, 717<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 One African art dealer calls this is a Dan Deangle mask from Ivory Coast in West Africa and goes on to say that “Forest spirits play an important role in Dan culture. Initiation rites take place in the forest with a female mask used to embody the gentle, nurturing aspects of the forest spirit. The word “deangle” refers to the feminine character of the mask, with its slit eyes, full lips, and central ridge down the forehead. These are considered to be ideal elements of feminine beauty by the Dan.” <\/span><\/p>\n

The well respected Hamill Gallery in Boston has one with the caption “Dan Mask, 20-in high.\u00a0 Despite its appearance, this Dan headdress shows no evidence of age or use and was probably made to be sold. Photographs \u00a9 Tim Hamill”<\/p>\n

Like the Hamill mask (the one below), Robbie’s was probably artificially antiqued, but it was done quickly by a less skillful craftsman. I like both of them… but I would rather own the one from Hamill. Incidentally, if it could be proven that it was used in ceremonies by the Dan, at auction it might go for much<\/span> more! Check it out at http:\/\/www.hamillgallery.com\u00a0\u00a0 C<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Q:\u00a0 Bought this at garage sale..it looks and feels old and authentic. Made of wood and fabric and shells.\u00a0 Robbie, 717 A:\u00a0 One African art dealer calls this is a Dan Deangle mask from Ivory Coast in West Africa and goes on to say that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","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\/2183","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=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}