{"id":2897,"date":"2015-09-08T14:21:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2016-02-18T18:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:46:41","slug":"a-pair-of-mystery-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/a-pair-of-mystery-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"A pair of mystery masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2898\" style=\"width: 83px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-830.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2898\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-830-83x300.jpg\" alt=\"2 from same place?\" width=\"83\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-830-83x300.jpg 83w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-830-282x1024.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 83px) 100vw, 83px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2 from same place?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> We ended up with two masks we could not identify. Could you help us out please. Thanks so much,<br \/>\nNorb (Visitors should know that Norb is constantly visiting estate auctions where he always wins the best items for a reasonable price. You can visit his store at www.estateauctionsinc.com 830<\/p>\n<p><strong>A: <\/strong> I can&#8217;t remember ever seeing masks like these two. Obviously, they are from the same culture and time period. I suspect they were used in culture, perhaps a long time ago. If I had to make a guess, I&#8217;d say they&#8217;re both from Alaska. If that turns out to be true, they would be of great interest to serious collectors.<!--more--> I hope Norb will send the size of each in a comment. If you have a hunch where they came from, please let us all know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: We ended up with two masks we could not identify. Could you help us out please. Thanks so much, Norb (Visitors should know that Norb is constantly visiting estate auctions where he always wins the best items for a reasonable price. You can visit his store at www.estateauctionsinc.com 830 A: I can&#8217;t remember ever seeing masks like these two. Obviously, they are from the same culture and time period. I suspect they were used in culture, perhaps a long time ago. If I had to make a guess, I&#8217;d say they&#8217;re both from Alaska. If that turns out to be true, they would be of great interest to serious collectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-native-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}