{"id":2706,"date":"2015-07-19T21:53:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T21:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2015-10-24T21:28:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T21:28:22","slug":"unusual-african-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/unusual-african-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual African mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2707\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2707\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2707\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-810-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"Where?\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-810-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-810.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I bought this mask from the German eBay last year for 15 euros. No info was provided and I have yet to find out anything about it. I would guess African and Ivory Coast. The backside does seem somewhat polished on the contact points. Thanks for any info in advance, you are a gent.\u00a0 Jim, 810<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 If I had to pick an area of Africa where it could come from it would be the northern DRC, formerly the Belgium Congo. <!--more-->But I doubt if I&#8217;m right. It was probably made by someone who carves masks for a living and decided to do something different for a change. After all, tourist will often buy unusual items. Also, the treatment of the back does not suggest actual usage to me. Now, after trashing this attractive wall-hanging, let&#8217;s hope that some mask collector writes in with a surprising ID.\u00a0 <strong>C<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I bought this mask from the German eBay last year for 15 euros. No info was provided and I have yet to find out anything about it. I would guess African and Ivory Coast. The backside does seem somewhat polished on the contact points. Thanks for any info in advance, you are a gent.\u00a0 Jim, 810 A:\u00a0 If I had to pick an area of Africa where it could come from it would be the northern DRC, formerly the Belgium Congo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2706","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\/2706","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=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}