{"id":2940,"date":"2015-09-25T00:46:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T00:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2015-10-18T23:49:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:49:18","slug":"rough-old-timorese-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/rough-old-timorese-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough, old Timorese mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2941\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2941\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-842.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2941\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-842-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"worn and damaged\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-842-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-842.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">worn and damaged<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: I acquired this mask on eBay. The seller told me it had been collected from an abandoned hut in East Timor and was circa 1800. That sounded a little romantic to me but it certainly looks very old and has a great character. Does it look Timorese to you? Mark, 842<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Submitting two Mystery Masks in a row is something I try to avoid, but I must make an exception here.<!--more--> First you come up with an intriguing Mexican mask and then you follow up with an even &#8220;older&#8221; one from halfway around the world on the island of Timor. Both are powerful and very representative of their much different cultures. (I put &#8220;older&#8221; in quotes because we can&#8217;t always be sure whether a mask looks old because of constant usage or artificial aging.) <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I acquired this mask on eBay. The seller told me it had been collected from an abandoned hut in East Timor and was circa 1800. That sounded a little romantic to me but it certainly looks very old and has a great character. Does it look Timorese to you? Mark, 842 A: Submitting two Mystery Masks in a row is something I try to avoid, but I must make an exception here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","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=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}