{"id":2421,"date":"2015-03-11T13:33:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2016-02-18T18:58:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:58:03","slug":"indian-folk-art-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/indian-folk-art-at-its-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian folk art at its best"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2424\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-755.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2424\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-755-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ramayana mask\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-755-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-755.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramayana mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 How can I find out where this mask is from? It is large enough to cover most of the wearer\u2019s face and is made of hand sewn of leather, fabric, sequins and gold thread.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve tried searching photos of masks from asia, south america and africa but can&#8217;t find anything that seems similar. \u00a0There are 3 others with the same coloring, shape and stress on eyes.\u00a0 Cheryl, 755<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 What a lovely piece, and a good example of Indian folk art at its best. <!--more-->I&#8217;m not sure from what state in India it comes, or what character in the Ramayana it represents. It may take some effort to find out because there is not much literature available to us. Hopefully one of our readers will offer a comment.\u00a0 <strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 How can I find out where this mask is from? It is large enough to cover most of the wearer\u2019s face and is made of hand sewn of leather, fabric, sequins and gold thread. I&#8217;ve tried searching photos of masks from asia, south america and africa but can&#8217;t find anything that seems similar. \u00a0There are 3 others with the same coloring, shape and stress on eyes.\u00a0 Cheryl, 755 A:\u00a0 What a lovely piece, and a good example of Indian folk art at its best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","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\/2421","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=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3353,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/3353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}