{"id":522,"date":"2013-08-15T21:34:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T21:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2015-10-26T19:17:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:17:04","slug":"it-looks-authentic-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/it-looks-authentic-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"It looks authentic to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-531\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-528n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-531 \" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-528n\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-528n-226x300.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-528n-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-528n.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dayak, Borneo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> \u00a0I was wondering what you thought of the attached.\u00a0 It is allegedly a Borneo Dayak mask from the 1940s, acquired by a WWII veteran.\u00a0 It looks authentic to me, but I was wondering if you had an opinion. Aaron, 528<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 It looks authentic (old and used)\u00a0to me as well. But a seller saying it was brought back by a\u00a0WWII vet is not provenance that buyers will believe. You need documents such as a letter from the South Pacific, an old snap shot, names and addresses of owner(s). <!--more-->Many are made for the tourist trade nowadays. There are some Dayak masks on the Oceanic section of MasksoftheWorld.com.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: \u00a0I was wondering what you thought of the attached.\u00a0 It is allegedly a Borneo Dayak mask from the 1940s, acquired by a WWII veteran.\u00a0 It looks authentic to me, but I was wondering if you had an opinion. Aaron, 528 A:\u00a0 It looks authentic (old and used)\u00a0to me as well. But a seller saying it was brought back by a\u00a0WWII vet is not provenance that buyers will believe. You need documents such as a letter from the South Pacific, an old snap shot, names and addresses of owner(s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}