{"id":2530,"date":"2015-05-03T15:15:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T15:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:32:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:32:56","slug":"bone-mask-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/bone-mask-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Bone mask or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2531\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-773.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2531\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-773-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"side and rear views\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-773-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-773.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">side and rear views<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I recently purchased this mask. \u00a0I believed it is carved from bone, possibly fossilized. \u00a0Sutures can be seen in the underside of the mask. \u00a0I do not know the type of bone or from what animal. Neither do I know its origin. \u00a0It measures 7.5&#8243; long and 5.5&#8243; wide. Feel free to ask any additional questions. Thanks for any info you are able to give me.\u00a0 Herbert, 773<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bones are an unusual medium for masks.<!--more-->More often we see masks of wood, papier mache, metal, ceramics, rubber, plastic, etc. Your carved bone is the right size for a mask. However, it is hard to understand how it could be worn. On the island of Timor in the South Pacific bone is often used for masks, but the ones I&#8217;ve seen aren&#8217;t marked this way. This piece appears to have been coated with brown tinted varnish to make it look old. That would suggest it is a decorative wall hanging. Comments are always welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I recently purchased this mask. \u00a0I believed it is carved from bone, possibly fossilized. \u00a0Sutures can be seen in the underside of the mask. \u00a0I do not know the type of bone or from what animal. Neither do I know its origin. \u00a0It measures 7.5&#8243; long and 5.5&#8243; wide. Feel free to ask any additional questions. Thanks for any info you are able to give me.\u00a0 Herbert, 773 A:\u00a0 Bones are an unusual medium for masks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","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=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}