{"id":2186,"date":"2014-12-27T13:06:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:34:13","slug":"new-guinea-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/new-guinea-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"New Guinea mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2187\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-718.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2187\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-718-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sepik River area\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-718-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-718-600x655.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-718.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sepik River area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I&#8217;m interested in selling this. I inherited this mask many years ago and never displayed it.\u00a0 I was told it was from Sepik River, New Giunea, with an origin date of 1800&#8217;s to early 1900&#8217;s. Let me know.\u00a0 Thanks, David, 718<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sepik River area of Papua New Guinea is the correct location for the location of its manufacture, but the accuracy of the origin date is very unlikely. <!--more-->Contact with the indigenous people of PNG doesn&#8217;t start until the middle 20th century. I seriously doubt if this mask is very old, however you can ask a specialist in Oceanic art for an opinion, wait for one of our readers to comment, or just hang it on the wall and enjoy its primitive beauty.\u00a0 <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I&#8217;m interested in selling this. I inherited this mask many years ago and never displayed it.\u00a0 I was told it was from Sepik River, New Giunea, with an origin date of 1800&#8217;s to early 1900&#8217;s. Let me know.\u00a0 Thanks, David, 718 A:\u00a0 Sepik River area of Papua New Guinea is the correct location for the location of its manufacture, but the accuracy of the origin date is very unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","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=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3302,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/3302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}