{"id":4713,"date":"2016-12-13T00:50:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T00:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2016-12-31T22:09:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T22:09:22","slug":"mississippian-bone-gorget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/mississippian-bone-gorget\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippian bone gorget"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"aaaMystrySolvd-1065-a\"<\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Of course this mask is Inuit and not Cherokee. \u00a0The fellow I’d mentioned previously, had gotten confused. \u00a0I’ve not seen one of these masks made with bone, like snow goggles. \u00a0My guess in age is the 1800’s? \u00a0Are the line markings on the back suggesting a spirit leaving, through the holes, to the spirit world? \u00a0I wonder what the markings around the eyes signify. It is 6 1\/4″ high. What is your opinion? \u00a0PJ, 1065<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Gorgets are a Native American<\/a><\/span> art form of polished, carved shell<\/a><\/span> or bone pendants<\/a><\/span> worn around the neck. The gorgets are frequently engraved, and are sometimes highlighted with pigments or pierced with openings. Gorgets were most common in Eastern Woodlands<\/a><\/span> of the United States<\/a><\/span> during the Mississippian cultural period<\/a><\/span> (800\u20131500 CE); however, tribes from other regions and time periods also carved gorgets. They are believed to have been insignia of status or rank, either civic, military, or religious, or amulets of protective medicine among the Indians. These little mask-like items are very popular with American collectors, and nowadays most of the ones we see on the market are easy-to-carve fakes. I’m not\u00a0 sure about this one.\u00a0 B\"aaaMystrySolvd-1065-b\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Q:\u00a0 Of course this mask is Inuit and not Cherokee. \u00a0The fellow I’d mentioned previously, had gotten confused. \u00a0I’ve not seen one of these masks made with bone, like snow goggles. \u00a0My guess in age is the 1800’s? \u00a0Are the line markings on the back suggesting a spirit leaving, through the holes, to the spirit world? \u00a0I wonder what the markings around the eyes signify. It is 6 1\/4″ high. What is your opinion? \u00a0PJ, 1065 A:\u00a0 Gorgets are a Native American art form of polished, carved shell or bone pendants worn around the neck. The gorgets are frequently engraved, and are sometimes highlighted with pigments or pierced with openings. Gorgets were most common in Eastern Woodlands of the United States during the Mississippian cultural period (800\u20131500 CE); however, tribes from other regions and time periods also carved gorgets. They are believed to have been insignia of status or rank, either civic, military, or religious, or amulets of protective medicine among the Indians. These little mask-like items are very popular with American collectors, and nowadays most of the ones we see on the market are easy-to-carve fakes. I’m not\u00a0 sure about this one.\u00a0 B Save Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-native-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713","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=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4791,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions\/4791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}