{"id":4338,"date":"2016-07-28T18:18:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T18:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2016-07-28T18:18:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T18:18:41","slug":"attack-of-the-powderpost-beetles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/attack-of-the-powderpost-beetles\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the powderpost beetles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"aaaMystrySolvd-999\"<\/a>You can see this same mask (before the beetles struck) on page 130 of the new book, Masks of the World<\/em>, by Ibold and Yohn. It is a deer mask from Oaxaca, Mexico. This style of mask has been danced by villagers for well over a hundred years. This one is 13 inches high and made of wood, deer skin and horns. It was collected in the 1960’s.<\/p>\n

Recently after being stored in my basement, I noticed that the dreaded beetles had been doing their nasty work on this beautiful mask! The nose area was the most damaged. So after the beetles were killed I was forced to do some repairs. You’ll be able to see what I did if you look closely at this photo.<\/p>\n

I hope you never encounter powderpost beetles. But if you see deep little holes in the wood surface of a mask, with fine wood powder coming out, you’re in trouble !\u00a0 I\u00a0 immediately put the mask in my freezer for a week, take it out, and watch from then on. Occasionally they can come back and you must freeze a 2nd time. You can get more info and pictures by going to Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can see this same mask (before the beetles struck) on page 130 of the new book, Masks of the World, by Ibold and Yohn. It is a deer mask from Oaxaca, Mexico. This style of mask has been danced by villagers for well over a hundred years. This one is 13 inches high and made of wood, deer skin and horns. It was collected in the 1960’s. Recently after being stored in my basement, I noticed that the dreaded beetles had been doing their nasty work on this beautiful mask! The nose area was the most damaged. So after the beetles were killed I was forced to do some repairs. You’ll be able to see what I did if you look closely at this photo. I hope you never encounter powderpost beetles. But if you see deep little holes in the wood surface of a mask, with fine wood powder coming out, you’re in trouble !\u00a0 I\u00a0 immediately put the mask in my freezer for a week, take it out, and watch from then on. Occasionally they can come back and you must freeze a 2nd time. You can get more info and pictures by going to Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","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=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}