{"id":4092,"date":"2016-04-12T20:34:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2016-04-12T20:34:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:34:43","slug":"colorful-zaouli-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/colorful-zaouli-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorful Zaouli mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-954.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4093\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4093\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-954-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-954\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-954-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-954-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-954-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-954-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today I was sent this along with some photos of very colorful masks from Ivory Coast, West Africa. Here is the message&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I came across these videos of Zaouli dance from the Guro tribe, Ivory coast.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BbLzhlR8GJc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BbLzhlR8GJc<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=87SLHb2cDpY&amp;nohtml5=False\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=87SLHb2cDpY&amp;nohtml5=False<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0I showed these to my grandson\u00a0 &#8211; now age 6 &#8211; and he said &#8220;How do they do that?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Richard, 954<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Zaouli is thought to exemplify a &#8220;new tradition&#8221; in African ritual and ceremonial dance that apparently arose <strong><em>after <\/em><\/strong>the end of colonialism and is recognized as such.\u00a0 It is also associated with brightly painted masks that often incorporate snakes linked to the Mami Wata religion of West Africa that was transported to the West (Haiti, Brazil, South Carolina and more.). I found this out after buying a couple of Zaouli dance masks from an Ivorian friend. Today many are carved for sale. Mine show evidence that they were actually danced. This shows the disconnect between authentic and antique in African art.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was sent this along with some photos of very colorful masks from Ivory Coast, West Africa. Here is the message&#8230; &#8220;I came across these videos of Zaouli dance from the Guro tribe, Ivory coast. \u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BbLzhlR8GJc https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=87SLHb2cDpY&amp;nohtml5=False \u00a0I showed these to my grandson\u00a0 &#8211; now age 6 &#8211; and he said &#8220;How do they do that?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Richard, 954 Zaouli is thought to exemplify a &#8220;new tradition&#8221; in African ritual and ceremonial dance that apparently arose after the end of colonialism and is recognized as such.\u00a0 It is also associated with brightly painted masks that often incorporate snakes linked to the Mami Wata religion of West Africa that was transported to the West (Haiti, Brazil, South Carolina and more.). I found this out after buying a couple of Zaouli dance masks from an Ivorian friend. Today many are carved for sale. Mine show evidence that they were actually danced. This shows the disconnect between authentic and antique in African art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4092","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\/4092","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=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}