{"id":3938,"date":"2016-02-21T20:56:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T20:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2016-02-21T20:56:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T20:56:28","slug":"amazon-indian-spirit-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/amazon-indian-spirit-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Indian spirit mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-921.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3939\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-921-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-921\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-921-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-921-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-921-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-921-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> I just uncovered this mask of my fathers who passed almost 20 years ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s in a plexiglass frame, so I can only get the front view unfortunately. \u00a0 It has many colorful feathers and I think shell around the eyes.\u00a0 Any thoughts on where it might be from would be greatly appreciated.\u00a0 Raaismom, 921<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> Made by the Tapirape tribe in the southeast lowlands of the Brazilian Amazon, this large mask is called a &#8220;big face&#8221; in Portuguese. Note how beautiful the toucan and parrot feathers are. I believe these masks were made to display the spirits of enemy warriors. This valuable piece of Tapirape art deserves to be cleaned up and re-framed by an expert.\u00a0<strong> A<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I just uncovered this mask of my fathers who passed almost 20 years ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s in a plexiglass frame, so I can only get the front view unfortunately. \u00a0 It has many colorful feathers and I think shell around the eyes.\u00a0 Any thoughts on where it might be from would be greatly appreciated.\u00a0 Raaismom, 921 A:\u00a0 Made by the Tapirape tribe in the southeast lowlands of the Brazilian Amazon, this large mask is called a &#8220;big face&#8221; in Portuguese. Note how beautiful the toucan and parrot feathers are. I believe these masks were made to display the spirits of enemy warriors. This valuable piece of Tapirape art deserves to be cleaned up and re-framed by an expert.\u00a0 A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","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=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}