{"id":3515,"date":"2015-11-13T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T23:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2015-11-14T13:55:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T13:55:27","slug":"strange-leather-mask-from-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/strange-leather-mask-from-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange leather mask from Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3516\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-858.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3516\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-858-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Need more info\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-858-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-858-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-858-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/aaaMystrySolvd-858-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Need more info<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just bought this leather mask and wanted to get your opinion as to it&#8217;s origin. It measures 9&#8243; at widest and 10&#8243; top to bottom with horse hair whiskers. Could this be from Chiapas?\u00a0 Thanks, Lois, 858<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Tzotzil people, who live in the center of Chiapas and are of Mayan descent, frequently make masks out of leather. But this one is different in design. <!--more-->Here is what the author and collector, Bryan Stevens, had to say. &#8220;It is real but undanced, from Guerrero, but it is atypical of the area, so I am not certain.&#8221; Let&#8217;s hope that someone who reads this blog has more to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Just bought this leather mask and wanted to get your opinion as to it&#8217;s origin. It measures 9&#8243; at widest and 10&#8243; top to bottom with horse hair whiskers. Could this be from Chiapas?\u00a0 Thanks, Lois, 858 A:\u00a0 The Tzotzil people, who live in the center of Chiapas and are of Mayan descent, frequently make masks out of leather. But this one is different in design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515","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\/3515","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=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}