{"id":4968,"date":"2017-02-19T19:56:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2017-02-19T19:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T19:56:28","slug":"the-famous-png-mud-man-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/the-famous-png-mud-man-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"The famous PNG mud man mask"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Here is a mask I picked up in my travels in Florida. Went to Goodwill and found this Asaro mud man mask\u00a0 dated 1997.\u00a0 This was on a paper label inside the mask.\u00a0 Really great condition. Teeth are real.\u00a0 Other bone \u00a0and seed decorations really cool. Scary looking.\u00a0 Deb, 1109<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 A lot of the people who write to me found their mystery mask in a thrift shop… and it is usually junk I can’t publish.\u00a0 This one was probably made for tourist, but it certainly is not junk. The style is perfect, it’s been carefully made and decorated, and it would be nice for any collection of Oceanic art. However, one that was less fancy would be a little more true to form.<\/p>\n

On page 71 of the book, Masks of the World<\/em>, it says… “Mask in PNG are usually made of carved wood, woven grass and fibers, animal materials, etc., but the Asaro are the only tribe that makes them completely out of clay. According to legend, their ancestors were once driven into a swamp by an invading tribe. After plastering their heads with mud, they launched a counter attack and frightened the enemy away.”\u00a0 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0 Here is a mask I picked up in my travels in Florida. Went to Goodwill and found this Asaro mud man mask\u00a0 dated 1997.\u00a0 This was on a paper label inside the mask.\u00a0 Really great condition. Teeth are real.\u00a0 Other bone \u00a0and seed decorations really cool. Scary looking.\u00a0 Deb, 1109 A:\u00a0 A lot of the people who write to me found their mystery mask in a thrift shop… and it is usually junk I can’t publish.\u00a0 This one was probably made for tourist, but it certainly is not junk. The style is perfect, it’s been carefully made and decorated, and it would be nice for any collection of Oceanic art. However, one that was less fancy would be a little more true to form. On page 71 of the book, Masks of the World, it says… “Mask in PNG are usually made of carved wood, woven grass and fibers, animal materials, etc., but the Asaro are the only tribe that makes them completely out of clay. According to legend, their ancestors were once driven into a swamp by an invading tribe. After plastering their heads with mud, they launched a counter attack and frightened the enemy away.”\u00a0 A-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","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=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4970,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions\/4970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}