{"id":5195,"date":"2017-05-07T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2017-05-07T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T19:49:08","slug":"large-headdress-from-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/large-headdress-from-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Large headdress from Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1147.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5196\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1147-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1147-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1147-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1147-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1147-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>MasksoftheWorld.com is mostly about masks. The masks we show and write about have been made to wear over a person&#8217;s face for a particular purpose, and in a particular culture.<\/p>\n<p>This piece is a little different. It&#8217;s a headdress worn on top of the head in Sierra Leone, West Africa. That person would be either Temme or Mende, and a member of the Ode-Lay Society. It would take him some effort&#8211; the headdress is 30 inches high and weighs about 8 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>There are also real masks that are too small to be worn over the face. Some as small as 2 inches are worn hanging from a necklace or bracelet. The one below is 5 inches and would hang from a belt. It is a miniature chimpanzee mask from the Grebo culture in Ivory Coast, West Africa.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1147b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5197\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1147b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1147b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1147b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1147b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1147b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MasksoftheWorld.com is mostly about masks. The masks we show and write about have been made to wear over a person&#8217;s face for a particular purpose, and in a particular culture. This piece is a little different. It&#8217;s a headdress worn on top of the head in Sierra Leone, West Africa. That person would be either Temme or Mende, and a member of the Ode-Lay Society. It would take him some effort&#8211; the headdress is 30 inches high and weighs about 8 lbs. There are also real masks that are too small to be worn over the face. Some as small as 2 inches are worn hanging from a necklace or bracelet. The one below is 5 inches and would hang from a belt. It is a miniature chimpanzee mask from the Grebo culture in Ivory Coast, West Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5195","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\/5195","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=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5198,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions\/5198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}