{"id":3618,"date":"2015-12-07T19:21:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2015-12-07T19:21:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:21:02","slug":"traditional-mask-from-the-swiss-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/traditional-mask-from-the-swiss-alps\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional mask from the Swiss Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I&#8217;ve just picked up this mask from an antique dealer in Paris. Apparently it&#8217;s a late 19th century Swiss mask.<br \/>\nThe teeth appear to be real but I&#8217;m not sure, and the hair feels to be human but considering its still attached to hide common sense says its probably horse.\u00a0\u00a0The dimensions of the mask are 30cm X 18cm.\u00a0 Is there anything you can tell me about it?\u00a0 PS: my girlfriend has bought me your book for xmas, without my even asking her!<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> This is a Roitschaeggaetae mask from the Loetsch Valley of Wallis Canton in the mountains of Switzerland. <!--more-->Young men would wear these masks, which they carved themselves, and dress in furs covered in a mixture of soot, blood and manure, and then chase the frightened villagers. The mask is also called a Shrovetide mask. This is a full-size example that may have been briefly used and then sold to a tourist. Yours is 12 inches high and they can bigger&#8211; 14 inches or more.\u00a0 8 to 10 inch versions are made for tourists only.\u00a0 <strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I&#8217;ve just picked up this mask from an antique dealer in Paris. Apparently it&#8217;s a late 19th century Swiss mask. The teeth appear to be real but I&#8217;m not sure, and the hair feels to be human but considering its still attached to hide common sense says its probably horse.\u00a0\u00a0The dimensions of the mask are 30cm X 18cm.\u00a0 Is there anything you can tell me about it?\u00a0 PS: my girlfriend has bought me your book for xmas, without my even asking her! A:\u00a0 This is a Roitschaeggaetae mask from the Loetsch Valley of Wallis Canton in the mountains of Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","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=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}