{"id":5141,"date":"2017-04-06T18:54:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2017-04-06T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:54:06","slug":"another-kwele-mask-from-gabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/another-kwele-mask-from-gabon\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Kwele mask from Gabon"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!-- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<div id=\"divtagdefaultwrapper\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-1140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5143\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-1140-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-1140-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-1140-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-1140-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/aaaMystrySolvd-1140-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Thank you very much Bob, you confirmed my suspicions about it. Also appreciate the addition of it to your website along with the mention of Kwele masks. I attached a picture of a mask I have.\u00a0 I do wish to get a more traditional looking one. There are ones covered in kaolin clay and flatter in shape, like the one you posted.\u00a0\u00a0 Forest, 1140<\/p>\n<p>A:\u00a0 Forest is referring to a recent post on March 24th which showed a much different Kwele antelope mask. This tribe makes quite a few versions of the Kwele. You can see more different ones on page 28 of <em>Masks of the World<\/em> by Ibold &amp; Yohn. That&#8217;s five designs for the same character coming from a relatively small culture in Gabon, West Africa. I think there are several more to be found. In my opinion, Forrest should try to get all of them! Highly focused collecting can be very rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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>Thank you very much Bob, you confirmed my suspicions about it. Also appreciate the addition of it to your website along with the mention of Kwele masks. I attached a picture of a mask I have.\u00a0 I do wish to get a more traditional looking one. There are ones covered in kaolin clay and flatter in shape, like the one you posted.\u00a0\u00a0 Forest, 1140 A:\u00a0 Forest is referring to a recent post on March 24th which showed a much different Kwele antelope mask. This tribe makes quite a few versions of the Kwele. You can see more different ones on page 28 of Masks of the World by Ibold &amp; Yohn. That&#8217;s five designs for the same character coming from a relatively small culture in Gabon, West Africa. I think there are several more to be found. In my opinion, Forrest should try to get all of them! Highly focused collecting can be very rewarding. &nbsp; Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5141","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\/5141","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=5141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5144,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5141\/revisions\/5144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}