{"id":4011,"date":"2016-03-15T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2016-03-15T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T14:40:14","slug":"large-indian-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/large-indian-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Indian mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-937-a.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4012\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4012\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-937-a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-937-a\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-937-a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-937-a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-937-a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-937-a-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have been trying to research this mask. I know it is from India but I am not sure if it is Ravana or Shiva? Also an age? I think it is late 19thC, early 20thC but someone has recently told me it was older? It is a large mask at 19&#8243; inches in Length and 12&#8243; wide and 7&#8243; deep.\u00a0\u00a0 Josh, 937<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Shiva is a female deity, so it could be Ravana or some other male character. Unfortunately, there is no reference book about Indian masks to tell us the character&#8217;s name, the festival for which it is used, area it comes from, etc.\u00a0 A careful search of Google might help. Or a comment would be nice. As for its age, someone familiar with Indian masks should look at it closely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-937-b.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4013\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4013\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-937-b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-937-b\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-937-b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-937-b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-937-b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-937-b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I have been trying to research this mask. I know it is from India but I am not sure if it is Ravana or Shiva? Also an age? I think it is late 19thC, early 20thC but someone has recently told me it was older? It is a large mask at 19&#8243; inches in Length and 12&#8243; wide and 7&#8243; deep.\u00a0\u00a0 Josh, 937 A:\u00a0 Shiva is a female deity, so it could be Ravana or some other male character. Unfortunately, there is no reference book about Indian masks to tell us the character&#8217;s name, the festival for which it is used, area it comes from, etc.\u00a0 A careful search of Google might help. Or a comment would be nice. As for its age, someone familiar with Indian masks should look at it closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","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\/4011","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=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4014,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}