{"id":2956,"date":"2015-10-05T23:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T23:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2015-10-18T23:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:36:48","slug":"the-mask-mans-most-frequent-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/the-mask-mans-most-frequent-submission\/","title":{"rendered":"A popular mask from Ivory Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2957\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2957\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-846.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2957\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-846-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Senufo Kpelie mask\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-846-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-846.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senufo Kpelie mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> We inherited this from my grandfathers estate. It was a gift to him from one of his traveling friends. He died in 1975, so it is older than that. No other info, just curious about it. I grew up calling him &#8220;Alfred&#8221; and have fond memories of it. Katie, 846<\/p>\n<p><strong>A: <\/strong> If you look at this blog&#8217;s &#8220;Africa&#8221; category, you will see many masks similar to this one. It is a Kpelie mask from the Senufo people of Ivory Coast, West Africa. Its design and decorations can vary considerably.<!--more--> It represents a female ancestral spirit that is an important character in Poro Society ritual. You can see two different Kpelies on page 22 of our new book, <em>Masks of the World<\/em>, which is now available on Amazon. Why they are more popular than other African mask styles that are equally artistic, I cannot say. This one is of moderate quality and was made for the tourist trade rather than actual use. <strong>B-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: We inherited this from my grandfathers estate. It was a gift to him from one of his traveling friends. He died in 1975, so it is older than that. No other info, just curious about it. I grew up calling him &#8220;Alfred&#8221; and have fond memories of it. Katie, 846 A: If you look at this blog&#8217;s &#8220;Africa&#8221; category, you will see many masks similar to this one. It is a Kpelie mask from the Senufo people of Ivory Coast, West Africa. Its design and decorations can vary considerably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2956","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\/2956","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=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}