{"id":4124,"date":"2016-05-02T00:09:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T00:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2016-05-02T00:09:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T00:09:51","slug":"animal-mask-from-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/animal-mask-from-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal mask from Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-961.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4125\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-961-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-961\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-961-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-961-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-961-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-961-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 This mask was bought at auction in Ontario, Canada.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if it is a wolf or a wild boar.\u00a0 I \u00a0first thought it may be an aboriginal mask from the West Coast of Canada but now I&#8217;m wondering if it is Indonesian.\u00a0 There is a small bit of a wax seal remaining which I saw on other Indonesian masks. Not sure if it has much value but I am downsizing and need to get rid of stuff. It definitely looks like it has been around for a long while.\u00a0 Any help would be appreciated.\u00a0 Brenda, 961<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Actually, it is from Nepal, probably the Middle Hills area. Not sure what animal it represents, but I suspect it was carved and stained to sell to tourists as a shaman&#8217;s headgear. The red wax seal was used by Nepal&#8217;s customs service to collect tax money.\u00a0 <strong>C<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 This mask was bought at auction in Ontario, Canada.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if it is a wolf or a wild boar.\u00a0 I \u00a0first thought it may be an aboriginal mask from the West Coast of Canada but now I&#8217;m wondering if it is Indonesian.\u00a0 There is a small bit of a wax seal remaining which I saw on other Indonesian masks. Not sure if it has much value but I am downsizing and need to get rid of stuff. It definitely looks like it has been around for a long while.\u00a0 Any help would be appreciated.\u00a0 Brenda, 961 A:\u00a0 Actually, it is from Nepal, probably the Middle Hills area. Not sure what animal it represents, but I suspect it was carved and stained to sell to tourists as a shaman&#8217;s headgear. The red wax seal was used by Nepal&#8217;s customs service to collect tax money.\u00a0 C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4124","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\/4124","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=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4126,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions\/4126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}