{"id":2967,"date":"2015-10-07T22:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2015-11-08T20:26:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:26:11","slug":"royal-official-from-guizhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/royal-official-from-guizhou\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal official from Guizhou"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2969\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-847.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2969\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-847-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Nuo mask\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-847-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-847.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese Nuo mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a mask I bought some days ago from a man who told me it came from India, more precisely in Rajasthan, but how can I be sure? It cost me about 12\u20ac.<br \/>\nWhat do you think of it?\u00a0 Thanks, Maillard, 847<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think this is a Nuo or exorcising mask from Guizhou, a mountainous province in southwest China. <!--more-->It&#8217;s known for its ancient rural villages, traditionally inhabited by minority groups like the Miao and Dong. You can see and read about 10 different Nuo masks on page 50 of our new book, <em>Masks of the World<\/em><em>.<\/em> It is hard to tell from the photo whether this one is authentic or an artificially aged piece for the tourist trade. If it is the latter, other locations such as Northern India, Nepal and Tibet are all possible locations for its manufacture. Thus the Rajasthan provenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a mask I bought some days ago from a man who told me it came from India, more precisely in Rajasthan, but how can I be sure? It cost me about 12\u20ac. What do you think of it?\u00a0 Thanks, Maillard, 847 A:\u00a0 I think this is a Nuo or exorcising mask from Guizhou, a mountainous province in southwest China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","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=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3014,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/3014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}