{"id":4836,"date":"2017-01-11T21:55:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2017-01-11T21:55:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:55:24","slug":"odd-ball-african-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/odd-ball-african-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd-ball African mask"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 A friend of mine acquired this mask during his trip to Stone Town, Zanzibar at a small gift shop. Mask\u2019s height is 23 cm, width 13 cm. The wood is unknown to me, all I can say \u2013 it\u2019s very light, but at the same time quite solid. Paint looks like some natural pigments mixed with an adhesive, something similar to tempera maybe. We believe this mask to be a typical souvenir mask, of course, however, I\u2019m not sure if the design is based on something traditional or not. Something close to Dan beaked masks or Luba, perhaps. Hope you can clarify this.\u00a0 Andrey, 1088<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sometimes African masks turn up that look much different than anything you’ve seen before. It could be a blend of styles, as you suggested. Check out the labels on the rear. Can you read them? Because the photos are sharp, I think I can tell the mask was antiqued for sale to tourists. Perhaps one of our viewers will make a comment that helps to clarify.\u00a0 C?\"\"<\/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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0 A friend of mine acquired this mask during his trip to Stone Town, Zanzibar at a small gift shop. Mask\u2019s height is 23 cm, width 13 cm. The wood is unknown to me, all I can say \u2013 it\u2019s very light, but at the same time quite solid. Paint looks like some natural pigments mixed with an adhesive, something similar to tempera maybe. We believe this mask to be a typical souvenir mask, of course, however, I\u2019m not sure if the design is based on something traditional or not. Something close to Dan beaked masks or Luba, perhaps. Hope you can clarify this.\u00a0 Andrey, 1088 A:\u00a0 Sometimes African masks turn up that look much different than anything you’ve seen before. It could be a blend of styles, as you suggested. Check out the labels on the rear. Can you read them? Because the photos are sharp, I think I can tell the mask was antiqued for sale to tourists. Perhaps one of our viewers will make a comment that helps to clarify.\u00a0 C?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4836","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\/4836","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=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4839,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions\/4839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}