{"id":4904,"date":"2017-01-30T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2017-01-30T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:54:06","slug":"himalayan-skull-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/himalayan-skull-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan skull masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1099a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4905\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1099a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1099a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1099a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1099a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1099a-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I was just looking at this entertaining skull mask. Skulls are a subject for masquerade in cultures all over the world. This one is obviously from the Himalayan region. You can always recognize this because of the way the nose, cheek bones and many teeth are sculpted. It is made of papier mache which is light-weight and cheap. Most of the skull masks made for use in dance or ceremony nowadays utilize that material. However, this particular one was antiqued for sale to the tourist trade.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also posting two other skull masks from page 38 of my book, <em>Masks of the World<\/em>, that were carefully carved out of wood.\u00a0 Note how different they are, yet you can easily see that all three are Himalayan. The little skulls often used to decorate the tops of Himalayan masks are the same style.\u00a0\u00a0 Bob, 1099<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1099b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4906\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1099b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1099b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1099b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1099b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1099b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/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: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 299px; left: 345px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just looking at this entertaining skull mask. Skulls are a subject for masquerade in cultures all over the world. This one is obviously from the Himalayan region. You can always recognize this because of the way the nose, cheek bones and many teeth are sculpted. It is made of papier mache which is light-weight and cheap. Most of the skull masks made for use in dance or ceremony nowadays utilize that material. However, this particular one was antiqued for sale to the tourist trade. I&#8217;m also posting two other skull masks from page 38 of my book, Masks of the World, that were carefully carved out of wood.\u00a0 Note how different they are, yet you can easily see that all three are Himalayan. The little skulls often used to decorate the tops of Himalayan masks are the same style.\u00a0\u00a0 Bob, 1099 Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-himalayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904","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=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4909,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions\/4909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}