{"id":2455,"date":"2015-04-02T16:31:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T16:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2015-10-25T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T17:03:10","slug":"toma-poro-society-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/toma-poro-society-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Toma Poro Society mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2456\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-759.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2456\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-759-161x300.jpg\" alt=\"West Africa\" width=\"161\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-759-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-759-600x1121.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-759-548x1024.jpg 548w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-759.jpg 1107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bought with a lot of PNG material, but seems not to fit with them. 14 inches long. I&#8217;m mostly interested in masks from Oceania and Europe.\u00a0 Kim, 759<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 At first I did not recognize this mask, but I now realize it is a very simple version of the well-known masks used for boys participating in initiation rituals of the Poro Society throughout the Toma ethnic group located in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. <!--more-->You can see a much different one at the <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/masks\/african-masks\/\">African section<\/a> of this site, or go to Google images and search Toma masks. I&#8217;m not sure of its authenticity, but the style is traditional and I would consider it quite collectible. I apologize for taking so long to deliver this good news.\u00a0<strong> B+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Bought with a lot of PNG material, but seems not to fit with them. 14 inches long. I&#8217;m mostly interested in masks from Oceania and Europe.\u00a0 Kim, 759 A:\u00a0 At first I did not recognize this mask, but I now realize it is a very simple version of the well-known masks used for boys participating in initiation rituals of the Poro Society throughout the Toma ethnic group located in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455","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\/2455","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=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}