{"id":3725,"date":"2016-01-13T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2016-01-13T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:07:08","slug":"simple-gelede-mask-from-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/simple-gelede-mask-from-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Gelede mask from Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 I have a hobby and find treasures so to speak for fun and have acquired a few masks. They are from an avid collector who passed away and I bought his items. Most were signed and I have kept my favorites. This particular mask is missing 3 rings from around the neck, but could it be an African womanhood initiation type mask?\u00a0 Kathleen, 891<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Most of Kathleen&#8217;s masks are of high quality. I picked this one to share because it is from the Yoruba people, a very large <span class=\"_Tgc\">ethnic group of\u00a0 Nigeria as well as Benin in West Africa. She thought it might be a Bundu helmet mask used by girls entering womanhood in Sierra Leone further to the south. But it is a Gelede mask that is worn on the top of the head as part of a costume meant to appease witches and other evil spirits. It doesn&#8217;t need to have eyeholes. Geledes are usually well painted and often have additional decoration on top.\u00a0<strong> A-<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0\u00a0 I have a hobby and find treasures so to speak for fun and have acquired a few masks. They are from an avid collector who passed away and I bought his items. Most were signed and I have kept my favorites. This particular mask is missing 3 rings from around the neck, but could it be an African womanhood initiation type mask?\u00a0 Kathleen, 891 A:\u00a0 Most of Kathleen&#8217;s masks are of high quality. I picked this one to share because it is from the Yoruba people, a very large ethnic group of\u00a0 Nigeria as well as Benin in West Africa. She thought it might be a Bundu helmet mask used by girls entering womanhood in Sierra Leone further to the south. But it is a Gelede mask that is worn on the top of the head as part of a costume meant to appease witches and other evil spirits. It doesn&#8217;t need to have eyeholes. Geledes are usually well painted and often have additional decoration on top.\u00a0 A-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3725","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\/3725","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=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}