{"id":3805,"date":"2016-01-27T22:47:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T22:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2016-01-27T22:51:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T22:51:28","slug":"a-well-known-mask-from-the-lega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/a-well-known-mask-from-the-lega\/","title":{"rendered":"A well known mask from the Lega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-900.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3806\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3806\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-900-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-900\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-900-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-900-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-900-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-900-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Here is an African Lega with beard. The mask is 5&#8243; x 7.5&#8243;; and the beard extends 7&#8243; below bottom of mask at shortest point.\u00a0 Sue, 900<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> The first photo was sent with several others. I thought I should share it with you because it is very popular with collectors. The Lega are a large ethnic group in the one of the largest countries of Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo.\u00a0 <span class=\"text\">Lega masks are used as initiation objects in the <i>Bwami<\/i> society. Unlike many masks in other African cultures, the masks of the Lega are not usually worn over the face, they are attached to the body, held in the hand or simply hung on fences during the initiation ceremonies. I&#8217;m also posting another Lega mask from the Brooklyn Museum&#8217;s collection which is different because white kaolin makes the concave portion of the face stand out. Both are beautiful because of their simple design.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-900b.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3807\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3807\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-900b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-900b\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-900b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-900b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-900b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-900b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Here is an African Lega with beard. The mask is 5&#8243; x 7.5&#8243;; and the beard extends 7&#8243; below bottom of mask at shortest point.\u00a0 Sue, 900 A:\u00a0 The first photo was sent with several others. I thought I should share it with you because it is very popular with collectors. The Lega are a large ethnic group in the one of the largest countries of Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo.\u00a0 Lega masks are used as initiation objects in the Bwami society. Unlike many masks in other African cultures, the masks of the Lega are not usually worn over the face, they are attached to the body, held in the hand or simply hung on fences during the initiation ceremonies. I&#8217;m also posting another Lega mask from the Brooklyn Museum&#8217;s collection which is different because white kaolin makes the concave portion of the face stand out. Both are beautiful because of their simple design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3805","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\/3805","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=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}