{"id":2596,"date":"2015-06-03T21:26:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T21:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2015-10-24T23:43:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T23:43:22","slug":"lipiko-mask-from-the-makonde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/lipiko-mask-from-the-makonde\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipiko mask from the Makonde"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2597\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-788.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2597\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-788-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tanzania, Africa\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-788-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-788.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanzania, Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The famous Lipiko mask from the Makonde people projects a kind of stylized realism that is unique in African masks. This is a plain one without scarification or applied hair, but with an especially strong and well executed form. From a purely sculptural standpoint, it doesn\u2019t get much better than this. The mask, which slips completely over the dancers head and rests on the shoulders, is about 12 inches deep. <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-788-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2600\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-788-s-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-788-s\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-788-s-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-788-s.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><!--more-->Lipiko masks are very different from any other African art and are hard for some collectors to appreciate. Sometimes I like to dig up something different to share with my followers. How do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you<\/span> feel about this mask?\u00a0 Bob, 788<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous Lipiko mask from the Makonde people projects a kind of stylized realism that is unique in African masks. This is a plain one without scarification or applied hair, but with an especially strong and well executed form. From a purely sculptural standpoint, it doesn\u2019t get much better than this. The mask, which slips completely over the dancers head and rests on the shoulders, is about 12 inches deep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","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\/2596","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=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}