{"id":4364,"date":"2016-08-06T19:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2016-08-07T18:21:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T18:21:58","slug":"west-african-mystery-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/west-african-mystery-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"West African mystery mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-1004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4365\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-1004-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-1004\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-1004-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-1004-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-1004-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-1004-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have a large mask from up-country in the Ivory Coast. It was purchased in 2009 in the city of Man. I believe this is the original article and not a tourist &#8220;knock off&#8221;. I&#8217;m looking for more information as to origins and price. I&#8217;ll send you a side and a rear view soon.\u00a0 Dave, 1004<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, it looks real to me as well. Since the Dan people are all around Man in the West of Ivory Coast, and since the culture occasionally uses large masks, let&#8217;s start with that possibility. Send more pics when you can. I hope someone who specializes in African material will help us with a comment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 47px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I have a large mask from up-country in the Ivory Coast. It was purchased in 2009 in the city of Man. I believe this is the original article and not a tourist &#8220;knock off&#8221;. I&#8217;m looking for more information as to origins and price. I&#8217;ll send you a side and a rear view soon.\u00a0 Dave, 1004 A:\u00a0 Yeah, it looks real to me as well. Since the Dan people are all around Man in the West of Ivory Coast, and since the culture occasionally uses large masks, let&#8217;s start with that possibility. Send more pics when you can. I hope someone who specializes in African material will help us with a comment. Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4364","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\/4364","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=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4371,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/4371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}