{"id":3666,"date":"2016-01-02T19:25:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2016-01-02T19:25:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:25:54","slug":"unusual-sri-lankan-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/unusual-sri-lankan-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Sri Lankan mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> I have a collection of masks from around the world that I am interested in selling. I have pictures of 8 of them that I can send to you at this time (there are more), mostly frontal views. I do not have the three views for each that you request on your form. I know some are African and some are from Southeast Asia, but I have no specific info on the origins of any of them. Would it be productive for me to send you the pictures I have now? They are somewhat unusual.\u00a0 Risa, 879<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A:\u00a0 Risa did send me the photos and I picked out this one to share with my readers. This is a Maha Kola Sanni Yakka mask which incorporates 18 sanni masks into one larger mask. It is one of the more elaborate masks from Sri Lanka and you don&#8217;t see it very often. This particular example is even more rare. I have never seen a Maha Kola that is designed like this one. Those two side panel show a very strange creature with a trunk snout and a fish tale. The rest of the masks in the collection are more typical of what is normally offered to tourists visiting exotic countries.\u00a0 <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 22px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"983\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"4\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"4\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I have a collection of masks from around the world that I am interested in selling. I have pictures of 8 of them that I can send to you at this time (there are more), mostly frontal views. I do not have the three views for each that you request on your form. I know some are African and some are from Southeast Asia, but I have no specific info on the origins of any of them. Would it be productive for me to send you the pictures I have now? They are somewhat unusual.\u00a0 Risa, 879 A:\u00a0 Risa did send me the photos and I picked out this one to share with my readers. This is a Maha Kola Sanni Yakka mask which incorporates 18 sanni masks into one larger mask. It is one of the more elaborate masks from Sri Lanka and you don&#8217;t see it very often. This particular example is even more rare. I have never seen a Maha Kola that is designed like this one. Those two side panel show a very strange creature with a trunk snout and a fish tale. The rest of the masks in the collection are more typical of what is normally offered to tourists visiting exotic countries.\u00a0 B &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3666","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\/3666","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=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}