{"id":4313,"date":"2016-07-07T22:34:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T22:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2016-07-07T22:34:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T22:34:57","slug":"excellent-gelede-mask-from-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/excellent-gelede-mask-from-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Gelede mask from Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4314\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-992-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-992\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-992-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-992-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-992-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-992-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Me:\u00a0 Before I post this mask you recently acquired, could you tell me more about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nAaron:\u00a0 I really don\u2019t know much. I bought it at an auction. It\u2019s the normal size, but it hasn\u2019t been artificially aged. It looks to be 30 years old or so, although who knows. The maker used an oil-based paint, which is pretty unusual in tourist masks but not too uncommon in masks for tribal use, I think. That\u2019s about all I know, other than the general information about the Gelede ceremony from two excellent books, Henry Drewal\u2019s \u201cGelede: Art and Female Power Among the Yoruba\u201d and Babatunde Lawal\u2019s \u201cThe Gelede Spectacle\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nMe:\u00a0 Gelede masks are still used by many of the Yoruba population for ceremonies in Nigeria. Yours is an authentic mask, probably made by one of the better tribal carvers. If I were a collector today, this is the kind of material I would be looking for.\u00a0 A+<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me:\u00a0 Before I post this mask you recently acquired, could you tell me more about it? Aaron:\u00a0 I really don\u2019t know much. I bought it at an auction. It\u2019s the normal size, but it hasn\u2019t been artificially aged. It looks to be 30 years old or so, although who knows. The maker used an oil-based paint, which is pretty unusual in tourist masks but not too uncommon in masks for tribal use, I think. That\u2019s about all I know, other than the general information about the Gelede ceremony from two excellent books, Henry Drewal\u2019s \u201cGelede: Art and Female Power Among the Yoruba\u201d and Babatunde Lawal\u2019s \u201cThe Gelede Spectacle\u201d. Me:\u00a0 Gelede masks are still used by many of the Yoruba population for ceremonies in Nigeria. Yours is an authentic mask, probably made by one of the better tribal carvers. If I were a collector today, this is the kind of material I would be looking for.\u00a0 A+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4313","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\/4313","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=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}