{"id":2461,"date":"2015-04-07T14:12:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2015-10-26T19:38:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:38:54","slug":"yellow-guatemalan-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/yellow-guatemalan-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Guatemalan mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2462\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-761.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2462\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-761-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Unusual Guatemalan mask\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-761-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-761.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unusual Guatemalan mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I wonder if you could tell me anything about this mask. I purchased it at auction in a small town near Ottawa, Canada. It was described as a Victorian Carnival Mask. Thanks for your time, Rod, 761<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 The best I can do is tell you it is probably from Guatemala. I have no idea what the character is or what part of the country it comes from.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only seen animals (and once a woman) painted yellow&#8211; never a male character. Also, the four eye holes are too far apart. The larger holes should contain glass eyeballs. It is indeed unusual for a Guatemalan mask, but I get the feeling it was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> made for the tourist trade.\u00a0 <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I wonder if you could tell me anything about this mask. I purchased it at auction in a small town near Ottawa, Canada. It was described as a Victorian Carnival Mask. Thanks for your time, Rod, 761 A:\u00a0 The best I can do is tell you it is probably from Guatemala. I have no idea what the character is or what part of the country it comes from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","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=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}