{"id":4829,"date":"2017-01-09T22:42:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T22:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4829"},"modified":"2017-01-10T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:18:22","slug":"javanese-traditional-dance-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/javanese-traditional-dance-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Javanese traditional dance mask"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> I bought this mask at an auction as part of a box of mixed china. It is made from wood. Hand carved and painted. It seems to be for a child (or just to hang up) as it is only 16.5cm (6 1\/2 inches) high by 14cm (5 1\/2 inches) wide. I would love to know what it is.\u00a0 Penny, 1087<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Your mask is from East Java, the main island of Indonesia. On the back you can see it bears the name Djemang Keraros (sp?), a character in one of the dance dramas that are based on the Ramayana or Mahabarata epics.\u00a0 He could be a demon, deity, hero, god, or villain. You’ll have to do a little more research to get a more complete description. The fact that this mask is of poor quality may mean it comes from a small, rural village. On the back you can see where the dancer would have clenched this light-weight mask in his teeth to hold it on. The piece of leather is missing. This is not too small for an adult Indonesian to wear.\u00a0 A-\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Q:\u00a0 I bought this mask at an auction as part of a box of mixed china. It is made from wood. Hand carved and painted. It seems to be for a child (or just to hang up) as it is only 16.5cm (6 1\/2 inches) high by 14cm (5 1\/2 inches) wide. I would love to know what it is.\u00a0 Penny, 1087 A:\u00a0 Your mask is from East Java, the main island of Indonesia. On the back you can see it bears the name Djemang Keraros (sp?), a character in one of the dance dramas that are based on the Ramayana or Mahabarata epics.\u00a0 He could be a demon, deity, hero, god, or villain. You’ll have to do a little more research to get a more complete description. The fact that this mask is of poor quality may mean it comes from a small, rural village. On the back you can see where the dancer would have clenched this light-weight mask in his teeth to hold it on. The piece of leather is missing. This is not too small for an adult Indonesian to wear.\u00a0 A- \u00a0 Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bali-java"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829","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=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4833,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions\/4833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}