{"id":2986,"date":"2015-10-14T19:55:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T19:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2015-10-18T23:35:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:35:14","slug":"great-little-sri-lankan-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/great-little-sri-lankan-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Great little Sri Lankan mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2987\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-848.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2987\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-848-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kolam character\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-848-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-848-600x817.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-848-752x1024.jpg 752w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-848.jpg 1406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kolam character<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hello Bob, here&#8217;s a mask which comes from Sri Lanka. I found it in Tangalle, which is on the South coast if the island. It looks a bit ancient. Just wanted to share it with you&#8230;\u00a0 Maillard, 848<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I thought we ought to share this beautiful mask with our visitors. Sri Lanka has a long history of masquerade which includes several different types of masks (this one is a Kolam), each of which can represent hundreds of different characters. <!--more-->They are usually very brightly colored where as this one is more subtle in its coloring and especially well carved. I would have to look closely to tell whether its nice patina is the result of old age or the antiquing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Hello Bob, here&#8217;s a mask which comes from Sri Lanka. I found it in Tangalle, which is on the South coast if the island. It looks a bit ancient. Just wanted to share it with you&#8230;\u00a0 Maillard, 848 A:\u00a0 I thought we ought to share this beautiful mask with our visitors. Sri Lanka has a long history of masquerade which includes several different types of masks (this one is a Kolam), each of which can represent hundreds of different characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2986","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\/2986","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=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}