{"id":3972,"date":"2016-02-29T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2016-02-29T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:18:10","slug":"another-african-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/another-african-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Another African mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-927.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3973\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3973\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-927-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-927\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-927-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-927-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-927-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-927-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I sent you pictures of a mask a couple months ago&#8230; the Bambara mask from Mali.\u00a0 Thanks for giving me great information.\u00a0 Here is another of the several I have.\u00a0 Again, all purchased in the 70&#8217;s from a guy in Southern Indiana.\u00a0 They each appear older&#8230; Kevin, 927<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 The patina on the front and back looks good. Probably African, but hard for me to identify. Let&#8217;s hope someone will offer a comment. Here is what I see on the back that might be helpful. It is thinly carved and has 12 holes on the top half of the edge which are probably meant to hold some kind of hairdo. All the other details are obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I sent you pictures of a mask a couple months ago&#8230; the Bambara mask from Mali.\u00a0 Thanks for giving me great information.\u00a0 Here is another of the several I have.\u00a0 Again, all purchased in the 70&#8217;s from a guy in Southern Indiana.\u00a0 They each appear older&#8230; Kevin, 927 A:\u00a0 The patina on the front and back looks good. Probably African, but hard for me to identify. Let&#8217;s hope someone will offer a comment. Here is what I see on the back that might be helpful. It is thinly carved and has 12 holes on the top half of the edge which are probably meant to hold some kind of hairdo. All the other details are obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3972","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\/3972","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=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3974,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions\/3974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}