{"id":2569,"date":"2015-05-24T00:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T00:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2016-02-18T18:53:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:53:31","slug":"excellent-mask-from-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/excellent-mask-from-new-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent mask from New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2571\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-783.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2571\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-783-170x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lower Sepik, PNG\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-783-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-783.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lower Sepik, PNG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I just bought this at auction but know nothing about it. Any ideas about it would be appreciated. I&#8217;m interested in starting a small collection of masks.\u00a0 Steve, 783<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 This would be an excellent start to a collection. It is a very well made example of an ancestor mask from the Lower Sepic River area of Papua New Guinea. <!--more-->I usually recommend that people specialize rather than collect masks from anywhere. You could specialize in masks from PNG or from Oceania in general. This large (I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s about 2 feet high) beautiful version of the genre would probably look good in any collection, as long as you don&#8217;t insist on pieces that are old and used. It&#8217;s definitely quality work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I just bought this at auction but know nothing about it. Any ideas about it would be appreciated. I&#8217;m interested in starting a small collection of masks.\u00a0 Steve, 783 A:\u00a0 This would be an excellent start to a collection. It is a very well made example of an ancestor mask from the Lower Sepic River area of Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","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=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}