{"id":2478,"date":"2015-04-14T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T15:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2015-10-24T23:45:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T23:45:44","slug":"art-of-the-fang-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/art-of-the-fang-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of the Fang people"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2479\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-764.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2479\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-764-154x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ivory Coast, West Africa\" width=\"154\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-764-154x300.jpg 154w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-764.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivory Coast, West Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>:\u00a0 I bought this mask at Marrakesh, in a shop full of articles of South-Saharian Africa: Benin bronzes, Dogon windows, Igbo, Fang or Punu masks&#8230; even some python or leopard skins. I bought this one at the same time I bought a fang mask but I don&#8217;t know who made this one.\u00a0 Josema, 764<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 It seems to be a Fang also, but simply and quickly made. The design is great&#8230; and I think most collectors would enjoy seeing it on their wall. It looks so West African.\u00a0<!--more-->One shouldn&#8217;t have to pay a lot for a mask like this because it is unlikely it&#8217;s really old, used, or even made to be worn by a tribesman. In fact, many African masks are made in workshops outside the country from which their style originates. <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I bought this mask at Marrakesh, in a shop full of articles of South-Saharian Africa: Benin bronzes, Dogon windows, Igbo, Fang or Punu masks&#8230; even some python or leopard skins. I bought this one at the same time I bought a fang mask but I don&#8217;t know who made this one.\u00a0 Josema, 764 A:\u00a0 It seems to be a Fang also, but simply and quickly made. The design is great&#8230; and I think most collectors would enjoy seeing it on their wall. It looks so West African.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478","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\/2478","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=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}