{"id":4322,"date":"2016-07-25T18:47:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T18:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2016-07-30T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T16:03:24","slug":"classic-mask-from-the-grasslands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/classic-mask-from-the-grasslands\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic mask from the Grasslands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0<\/strong> This mask has been in my family for around 50 years. We don’t know much about it, but it was a gift from a doctor who traveled in Africa. I’m trying to get pointed in the right direction, any help would be great!\u00a0 Marc, 996<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 The right direction would be the Grasslands Region of Northern Cameroon. Perhaps the carver is from the Bamileke tribe, but there are a few other nearby groups with similar styles. The character is traditional, but even though it is at least 50 years old, I suspect it was made for the runners and tourists.\u00a0 B<\/strong>\"aaaMystrySolvd-996\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Runners” is a term for Africans who make their living buying carvings and re-selling them. This occupation has been around for over 100 years, or ever since Europeans and Americans became interested in collecting African folk art.<\/p>\n

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Q:\u00a0 This mask has been in my family for around 50 years. We don’t know much about it, but it was a gift from a doctor who traveled in Africa. I’m trying to get pointed in the right direction, any help would be great!\u00a0 Marc, 996 A:\u00a0 The right direction would be the Grasslands Region of Northern Cameroon. Perhaps the carver is from the Bamileke tribe, but there are a few other nearby groups with similar styles. The character is traditional, but even though it is at least 50 years old, I suspect it was made for the runners and tourists.\u00a0 B “Runners” is a term for Africans who make their living buying carvings and re-selling them. This occupation has been around for over 100 years, or ever since Europeans and Americans became interested in collecting African folk art. Save Save Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4322","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\/4322","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=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4341,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions\/4341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}