{"id":2900,"date":"2015-09-10T14:38:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T14:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2015-10-19T00:58:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T00:58:40","slug":"mask-from-somewhere-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/mask-from-somewhere-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask from somewhere in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_2901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2901\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-831.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-831-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Have you seen this man?\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-831-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-831.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Have you seen this man?<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>Q:<\/strong> This mask looks familiar, but I can\u2019t quite place it.  It definitely seems Himalayan.  Is it maybe a Monpa mask from Tibet?  I\u2019d love to get your opinion.  Aaron, 831<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>  I don\u2019t think it is Himalayan. Perhaps a little further south in India, maybe all the way to Sri Lanka. I would be glad to put it on the Mystery Mask blog, especially if you would send a little more info.<\/p>\n<p>Then Aaron writes:  I don\u2019t think it\u2019s Sri Lankan.  <!--more-->They never use eye holes in the pupils, always under the eye.  The seller did not know where it was from \u2013 first he said African, then Indonesian or South American.  He was just shooting in the dark.  My only other information is that the back is painted black, which is unusual.  The ears are very long, going from the brow to the mouth, with divots at the bottom.  The teeth look like a bit Javanese teeth I\u2019ve seen before, but Indonesians also don\u2019t use holes in the pupils.  I\u2019m thinking, if it\u2019s not Himalayan, it\u2019s northern Indian.  Please do circulate it to the blog!<\/p>\n<p>My reply:  India is a huge country with many different cultures that use masquerade. Unfortunately, very little has been written about them. I suspect this will change as that great country continues to prosper and grow. In the meantime, I hope someone will share a comment with us on this interesting piece of folk art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: This mask looks familiar, but I can\u2019t quite place it. It definitely seems Himalayan. Is it maybe a Monpa mask from Tibet? I\u2019d love to get your opinion. Aaron, 831 A: I don\u2019t think it is Himalayan. Perhaps a little further south in India, maybe all the way to Sri Lanka. I would be glad to put it on the Mystery Mask blog, especially if you would send a little more info. Then Aaron writes: I don\u2019t think it\u2019s Sri Lankan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-himalayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","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=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}