{"id":2631,"date":"2015-06-24T22:15:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T22:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2015-10-24T17:50:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T17:50:56","slug":"african-mask-with-moving-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/african-mask-with-moving-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"African mask with moving mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2632\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-796.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2632\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-796-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ogoni people, Nigeria\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-796-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-796.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ogoni people, Nigeria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"searchable-content\"><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I bought this mask on a car boot sale simply because I liked it and found it very interesting. I have tried to find out a bit about it with not much luck. Could this be an African maiden mask?\u00a0 I would appreciate any information you can give me. Jude, 796<\/p>\n<p class=\"searchable-content\"><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is an Elu mask with hinged jaw from the Ogoni people of southern Nigeria, Africa&#8217;s most populated country.<!--more--> <i>Elu<\/i> masks are danced by young members of secret men&#8217;s societies that have social, religious, or governmental functions. These masks are attached to cone-shaped caps of fiber and cloth that cover the heads of the dancers. They are usually danced at annual festivals or at the funerals of society members. I think this is a simple and very traditional example of an Elu mask. Nice find!\u00a0 <strong>B+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I bought this mask on a car boot sale simply because I liked it and found it very interesting. I have tried to find out a bit about it with not much luck. Could this be an African maiden mask?\u00a0 I would appreciate any information you can give me. Jude, 796 A:\u00a0 This is an Elu mask with hinged jaw from the Ogoni people of southern Nigeria, Africa&#8217;s most populated country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2631","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\/2631","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=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}