{"id":5011,"date":"2017-02-28T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2017-02-28T23:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T23:30:01","slug":"rare-oceanic-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/rare-oceanic-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Oceanic Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5012\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1117-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1117-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1117-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1117-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1117-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A choice example of Oceanic art has been added to the collection at the Toledo Museum of Art. Purchased at Christie\u2019s, the mask is one of four known distinguished examples from Saibai Island in the Torres Straits north of Australia.\u00a0 Masks in this style are called \u201cmawa,\u201d meaning \u201cface,\u201d and are believed to represent mythical heroes whose appearances signal important events and rites of passage. There are only three other examples in this style, two in the Australian Museum in Sydney and one in Barbier Mueller Museum in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>I posted this as a reminder of the wonderful masks you can see in museums. You can also purchase Oceanic masks from reputable dealers on the internet. Here is a nice example from Michael Hamson. Its a yam masks from the Abelam culture in close-by Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1117b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5015\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1117b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1117b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1117b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1117b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1117b-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: 47px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A choice example of Oceanic art has been added to the collection at the Toledo Museum of Art. Purchased at Christie\u2019s, the mask is one of four known distinguished examples from Saibai Island in the Torres Straits north of Australia.\u00a0 Masks in this style are called \u201cmawa,\u201d meaning \u201cface,\u201d and are believed to represent mythical heroes whose appearances signal important events and rites of passage. There are only three other examples in this style, two in the Australian Museum in Sydney and one in Barbier Mueller Museum in Geneva, Switzerland. I posted this as a reminder of the wonderful masks you can see in museums. You can also purchase Oceanic masks from reputable dealers on the internet. Here is a nice example from Michael Hamson. Its a yam masks from the Abelam culture in close-by Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5011","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\/5011","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=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5016,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions\/5016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}