{"id":4305,"date":"2016-07-06T19:29:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T19:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2016-11-10T19:22:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T19:22:12","slug":"possible-native-american-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/possible-native-american-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Leather skull mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"aaaMystrySolvd-991\"<\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 The one that looks like a skull is the one made from a hide.\u00a0 The attached braids and beads are very brittle.\u00a0 I know nothing about it.\u00a0 My Dad passed away 10 years ago and it was tucked away in a trunk.\u00a0 He loved Native American art and collected some pipes and other objects many years ago.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing this was one of his finds.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to know the origin of it.\u00a0 Mostly I\u2019m concerned about the condition and would like to see it restored or preserved.\u00a0 Marc, 991<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 This mask is too much of a mystery for me. I hope one of our visitors will have an opinion. I think it looks great and is probably a genuine artifact. Because Marc said his father was especially interested in Native American masks I sent the photos to some experts. Neither of them felt it was Native American.<\/p>\n

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Q:\u00a0 The one that looks like a skull is the one made from a hide.\u00a0 The attached braids and beads are very brittle.\u00a0 I know nothing about it.\u00a0 My Dad passed away 10 years ago and it was tucked away in a trunk.\u00a0 He loved Native American art and collected some pipes and other objects many years ago.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing this was one of his finds.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to know the origin of it.\u00a0 Mostly I\u2019m concerned about the condition and would like to see it restored or preserved.\u00a0 Marc, 991 A:\u00a0 This mask is too much of a mystery for me. I hope one of our visitors will have an opinion. I think it looks great and is probably a genuine artifact. Because Marc said his father was especially interested in Native American masks I sent the photos to some experts. Neither of them felt it was Native American. Save Save Save Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-native-america","category-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","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=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4644,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}