{"id":3687,"date":"2016-01-07T00:12:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T00:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2016-02-18T21:32:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T21:32:39","slug":"african-mask-with-no-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/african-mask-with-no-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"African mask with no mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> Mask itself is 13.5 x 8 x 4.5&#8243; and came from an estate.\u00a0 The person purchased the mask in mid 1970&#8217;s from what appears to be a good quality dealer, based on the paperwork I also found.\u00a0 Thanks, Bob!\u00a0 Alan, 884<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is a rarity&#8211; a West African mask with no mouth. Exactly what culture it is from and what it is for, I have no idea. From the headdress down, all of the features remind me of different tribes, but from below the nose there is nothing. I hope one of the African art collectors will make a guess. This is something special, even if it turns out to be just an unusual tourist piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Mask itself is 13.5 x 8 x 4.5&#8243; and came from an estate.\u00a0 The person purchased the mask in mid 1970&#8217;s from what appears to be a good quality dealer, based on the paperwork I also found.\u00a0 Thanks, Bob!\u00a0 Alan, 884 A:\u00a0 This is a rarity&#8211; a West African mask with no mouth. Exactly what culture it is from and what it is for, I have no idea. From the headdress down, all of the features remind me of different tribes, but from below the nose there is nothing. I hope one of the African art collectors will make a guess. This is something special, even if it turns out to be just an unusual tourist piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","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\/3687","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=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}