{"id":2550,"date":"2015-05-14T14:04:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:28:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:28:55","slug":"sculpture-from-the-sw-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/sculpture-from-the-sw-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture from the SW Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2551\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-778.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2551\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-778-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Timor?\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-778-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-778.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timor?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 My husband acquired this mask from an antiques dealer and was told that it had been purchased in NYC the 70&#8217;s. We believe it is from Indonesia. We were hoping you could give us some more information.\u00a0 Alicia, 778<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 This piece of art is about 30 inches tall, so it is made for decorating a home. I think it is quite handsome, but is not a real mask. <!--more-->Could it have been carved from a large palm trunk? The big question is from what culture does this interesting carving come from. As Alicia states, Indonesia is probably a good place to start the search.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to get back to Alicia with a few questions but my email may not have gotten through. This occasionally happens when people don&#8217;t type in their email address properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 My husband acquired this mask from an antiques dealer and was told that it had been purchased in NYC the 70&#8217;s. We believe it is from Indonesia. We were hoping you could give us some more information.\u00a0 Alicia, 778 A:\u00a0 This piece of art is about 30 inches tall, so it is made for decorating a home. I think it is quite handsome, but is not a real mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","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\/2550","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=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}