{"id":3701,"date":"2016-01-10T23:17:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2016-01-10T23:17:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T23:17:20","slug":"decorative-african-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/decorative-african-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Decorative African mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I bought this mask for $100 at an estate sale. The owner was a military veteran stationed in Africa near Mali in the 1960s. It is made of wood, hair, 12 inches by 18 inches. The 2 horns in head are carved with a face. The weight is 6 lbs.\u00a0 Nate, 888<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think it is a nice mask for the wall, and it has lots of African features. But it has been made for the tourist\/export market, not for use. Tourist masks like this can be fine for decoration. But real masks&#8211; the ones that are actually worn in native cultures&#8211; are often better looking and always more interesting.\u00a0 You can find them on eBay and many tribal art websites.\u00a0<strong> C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I bought this mask for $100 at an estate sale. The owner was a military veteran stationed in Africa near Mali in the 1960s. It is made of wood, hair, 12 inches by 18 inches. The 2 horns in head are carved with a face. The weight is 6 lbs.\u00a0 Nate, 888 A:\u00a0 I think it is a nice mask for the wall, and it has lots of African features. But it has been made for the tourist\/export market, not for use. Tourist masks like this can be fine for decoration. But real masks&#8211; the ones that are actually worn in native cultures&#8211; are often better looking and always more interesting.\u00a0 You can find them on eBay and many tribal art websites.\u00a0 C &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3701","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\/3701","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=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}