{"id":5136,"date":"2017-04-05T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2017-04-05T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:20:36","slug":"another-mask-from-the-deep-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/another-mask-from-the-deep-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Another mask from the Deep South"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-1139.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5137\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-1139-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-1139-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-1139-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-1139-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-1139-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I normally post only one mask per person, however the previous South American mask from Paraguay is interesting in comparison to this one. Here we have one from the Mapuche people of south-central Chile. Both indigenous groups survived colonization of lower South America, but they are small populations in comparison to the Indian populations further north, so we don&#8217;t get to see their masks very often.\u00a0 1139<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;\">Here is what Dean has to say about this Mapuche mask&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">Carved, plain, human\/spirit; leather hanging thong &amp; for the lips; has a horn tacked onto the \u00a0forehead, along with 3 strips &amp; brown\u00a0 horsehair; \u00a0wool for the hair, mustache &amp; goatee. 15 h.,\u00a0 7.5 w., 4 deep. Made by unknown artist\u00a0 c. 1990s at the Mapuche Reducci\u00f3n (Reservation) by Puc\u00f3n, Chile, where it was bought in 1994. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally post only one mask per person, however the previous South American mask from Paraguay is interesting in comparison to this one. Here we have one from the Mapuche people of south-central Chile. Both indigenous groups survived colonization of lower South America, but they are small populations in comparison to the Indian populations further north, so we don&#8217;t get to see their masks very often.\u00a0 1139 Here is what Dean has to say about this Mapuche mask&#8230; Carved, plain, human\/spirit; leather hanging thong &amp; for the lips; has a horn tacked onto the \u00a0forehead, along with 3 strips &amp; brown\u00a0 horsehair; \u00a0wool for the hair, mustache &amp; goatee. 15 h.,\u00a0 7.5 w., 4 deep. Made by unknown artist\u00a0 c. 1990s at the Mapuche Reducci\u00f3n (Reservation) by Puc\u00f3n, Chile, where it was bought in 1994. \u00a0 Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","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=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5140,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}