{"id":2841,"date":"2015-08-30T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2015-10-19T01:12:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T01:12:54","slug":"kota-reliquary-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/kota-reliquary-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Kota Reliquary Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2842\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-824.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2842\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-824-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-824-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-824.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a Janus reliquary guardian figure from the Gabonese Republic of West Africa. It would have been used by the Kota people in the mid-19th century. It is actually a piece of sculpture, but people who collect African masks always love them. It is made of wood, copper, brass, iron, cowrie shell and measures 23 \u00d7 12 \u00d7 5 in. This is a promised gift to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is from Terry and Lionel Bell in honor of the museum\u2019s 50th anniversary.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I recently visited LACMA and saw this beautiful piece in their &#8220;50 for 50&#8221; show which is a wonderful mix of all kinds of art. They also have several permanent collections of important ethnographic categories that I&#8217;m sure my readers would enjoy if their ever in Los Angeles.\u00a0 In my humble opinion, LACMA is one of the best art museums in the USA!\u00a0 824<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Janus reliquary guardian figure from the Gabonese Republic of West Africa. It would have been used by the Kota people in the mid-19th century. It is actually a piece of sculpture, but people who collect African masks always love them. It is made of wood, copper, brass, iron, cowrie shell and measures 23 \u00d7 12 \u00d7 5 in. This is a promised gift to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is from Terry and Lionel Bell in honor of the museum\u2019s 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2841","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\/2841","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=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}