{"id":2525,"date":"2015-04-30T13:35:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2015-10-25T16:55:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T16:55:36","slug":"marka-style-kore-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/marka-style-kore-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Marka style Kore mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-772.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2522\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-772-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-772\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-772-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-772.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I got this mask at a flea market about a year and a half ago and am very curious about it. \u00a0It is wood with hammered metal overlaying it, with real animal hair. I tried searching through your site to see if there was anything like it. \u00a0Anything you could tell me about it would be awesome. Tamara, 772<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 It&#8217;s a Kore mask from the Marka people of Mali, West Africa.<!--more--> If you select &#8220;Africa&#8221; and go all the way back to Dec 2, 2014, you can see another Marka mask and get a little more information. Yours is the same in basic design, but it is entirely covered with metal. Both are quite decorative and have that classic Marka\/Bamana look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I got this mask at a flea market about a year and a half ago and am very curious about it. \u00a0It is wood with hammered metal overlaying it, with real animal hair. I tried searching through your site to see if there was anything like it. \u00a0Anything you could tell me about it would be awesome. Tamara, 772 A:\u00a0 It&#8217;s a Kore mask from the Marka people of Mali, West Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","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\/2525","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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}