{"id":3684,"date":"2016-01-06T22:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T22:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2016-01-06T22:46:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T22:46:26","slug":"small-png-mask-in-nice-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/small-png-mask-in-nice-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Small PNG mask in nice condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I need to know what kind of mask it is! I bought it in a street market in Spain and haven&#8217;t yet found any information about it! Thanks in advance.\u00a0 It is 12 in in height, not counting the accessories.\u00a0 Rafael, 883<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 It is definitely from Papua New Guinea and looking very good. <!--more-->The general look of it and all of the materials are typical of the wood carvings of many tribes inhabiting that large, still-not-completely-explored island nation. Those long feathers are from the cassowary. But otherwise I have difficulty identifying it. It is unusually small for a traditional ancestor mask or a mosquito mask, both of which it resembles. I would assume it is a recently made item to sell to tourists, but it could be for use. Maybe someone with a special interest in Melanesian art could comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I need to know what kind of mask it is! I bought it in a street market in Spain and haven&#8217;t yet found any information about it! Thanks in advance.\u00a0 It is 12 in in height, not counting the accessories.\u00a0 Rafael, 883 A:\u00a0 It is definitely from Papua New Guinea and looking very good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","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=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3686,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions\/3686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}