{"id":3499,"date":"2015-11-06T20:17:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T20:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sledgeslam.com\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2016-02-18T22:05:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T22:05:20","slug":"unusual-mexican-bird-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/unusual-mexican-bird-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Mexican bird mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-855a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3500\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-855a.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-855a\" width=\"500\" height=\"689\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-855b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3501\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-855b.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-855b\" width=\"500\" height=\"705\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-855b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3501\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-855b.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-855b\" width=\"500\" height=\"705\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q:<\/strong> Looking through your older posts, I saw an unknown mask (Nov. 2013) which resembles one I have. Mine has a bird on the front. Very light wood. Bought with another one at a flea market. It has a tag inside which has the following: S. Pedro Teozacoalco. dist. Zaaohila. Mexico. It also has the following (which I translated using google translations): &#8220;The godmother of the bride (or groom) mask. Used during the blessing ceremony.&#8221; Any thoughts on its age, or what the inscription S. Pedro Teozacoalco means? Mickey, 855<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I asked Bryan Stevens, the most knowledgeable collector of Mexican masks I know, about this. <!--more-->He said&#8230; San Pedro Teozocoalco is a real town in the Mixteca Alta, the traditional highland Mixtec area of Oaxaca. The mask very strange, does it depict a Turkey Vulture? The label says it was worn by a godmother or protectress character, in the context of a romance and a blessing durung a ceremony (marriage?). There is a description of such a dance in a Mxteca Alta town, in Esser&#8217;s book, <em>Behind the Mask in Mexico<\/em>, in a chapter by Betty Ann Brown, pp 254-255, Beauty and the Beast. So I suppose that the mask could be real, but this is more a guess than a statement of certainty. My friend Barbara, from Santa Fe, is dubious about masks like this, based on past observation. She will further investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Looking through your older posts, I saw an unknown mask (Nov. 2013) which resembles one I have. Mine has a bird on the front. Very light wood. Bought with another one at a flea market. It has a tag inside which has the following: S. Pedro Teozacoalco. dist. Zaaohila. Mexico. It also has the following (which I translated using google translations): &#8220;The godmother of the bride (or groom) mask. Used during the blessing ceremony.&#8221; Any thoughts on its age, or what the inscription S. Pedro Teozacoalco means? Mickey, 855 A: I asked Bryan Stevens, the most knowledgeable collector of Mexican masks I know, about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","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=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}