{"id":3729,"date":"2016-01-15T23:02:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T23:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2016-01-15T23:10:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T23:10:36","slug":"mahakala-mask-from-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/mahakala-mask-from-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahakala mask from Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-892b.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3733\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3733\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-892b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-892b\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-892b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-892b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-892b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-892b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> I&#8217;ve been searching for literally YEARS on this mask.\u00a0 I cannot find any information. \u00a0it is really old wood, painted and bears a red stamp mark. I cant tell if its symbols or numbers, and I&#8217;m crossing my fingers you may be able to tell me something about it.\u00a0 Its really odd and unique.\u00a0 Walt, 892<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Your mask is a traditional Mahakala from the Himalayan region, where it is quite common in Buddhist performances and for sale to tourists. We know it is from Nepal because of the the red wax seal affixed by their customs service. There are Tibetan and Bhutanese Mahakalas that look very similar. It is handsome in my opinion, but I can&#8217;t be sure whether it is really old and used, or antiqued for the trade.\u00a0 <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been searching for literally YEARS on this mask.\u00a0 I cannot find any information. \u00a0it is really old wood, painted and bears a red stamp mark. I cant tell if its symbols or numbers, and I&#8217;m crossing my fingers you may be able to tell me something about it.\u00a0 Its really odd and unique.\u00a0 Walt, 892 A:\u00a0 Your mask is a traditional Mahakala from the Himalayan region, where it is quite common in Buddhist performances and for sale to tourists. We know it is from Nepal because of the the red wax seal affixed by their customs service. There are Tibetan and Bhutanese Mahakalas that look very similar. It is handsome in my opinion, but I can&#8217;t be sure whether it is really old and used, or antiqued for the trade.\u00a0 B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3729","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\/3729","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=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}