{"id":3606,"date":"2015-12-02T20:46:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2016-02-18T22:03:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T22:03:41","slug":"red-mwana-pwo-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/red-mwana-pwo-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Mwana Pwo mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-865.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3607\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-865-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-865\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-865-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-865-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-865-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-865-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I was recently in South Africa and purchased a mask in the Green Market in Cape Town. I paid around $75 for it and was impressed by the vendor&#8217;s knowledge of the different masks he had. This one especially caught my attention as it was so different than the others. I would love to know about its origins and anything else you might determine.\u00a0 Alan, 865<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> This looks like a Mwana Pwo mask from the Chokwe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<!--more--> <span class=\"st\">Representing an attractive young woman, this mask is danced by Chokwe men at festivals primarily for entertainment, and are said to bestow increased fertility on the spectators. <\/span>A popular item with collectors and tourists, we see a lot of them on the collector market. The only thing different to me is the red color. Mostly they are black or dark brown. You paid about the right amount.\u00a0<strong> B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I was recently in South Africa and purchased a mask in the Green Market in Cape Town. I paid around $75 for it and was impressed by the vendor&#8217;s knowledge of the different masks he had. This one especially caught my attention as it was so different than the others. I would love to know about its origins and anything else you might determine.\u00a0 Alan, 865 A:\u00a0 This looks like a Mwana Pwo mask from the Chokwe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3606","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\/3606","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=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}