{"id":5385,"date":"2017-06-19T17:46:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T17:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2017-06-19T17:46:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T17:46:42","slug":"taking-photos-of-your-mystery-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/taking-photos-of-your-mystery-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking photos of your Mystery Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Roosje:\u00a0 My daughter-in-law is interested in masks. I enjoy searching for affordable art and she asked me to keep an eye open for one. I found this mask (I live in the Netherlands) in an antique store of whom the owner is retiring and selling his stock for reduced prices. I paid 40 euro for the mask. I liked it very much and thought if my daughter in law does not want it, I will keep it myself. It is now hanging on my wall \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I have been searching for information and I suspect that it is a mask from the Ivory Coast, Liberia. I am curious, is it a mask of interest or is it made for the tourist trade?<\/p>\n

Bob:\u00a0 Your mask, with its clever adornments, should look good on your wall. It is a nice piece of decorative art and\u00a0 worth the price you paid. I can see hints of Liberia, Ivory Coast and Mali. Take a look at the recent blog titled \u201cBamana Ntoma mask from Mali,\u201d specifically the difference between an authentic artifact and a tourist item.<\/p>\n

Roosje:\u00a0 I have just send you some photos of the mask, but I noticed that they turned out quite small. I will send you a larger and sharper front view as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

Bob:\u00a0 Thanks for the higher res photo. After doing some Photoshop work on the lighting, I can clearly see this is a handsome mask, so I want to share it with our viewers. Some African masks carved for the tourist trade are worth collecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Roosje:\u00a0 My daughter-in-law is interested in masks. I enjoy searching for affordable art and she asked me to keep an eye open for one. I found this mask (I live in the Netherlands) in an antique store of whom the owner is retiring and selling his stock for reduced prices. I paid 40 euro for the mask. I liked it very much and thought if my daughter in law does not want it, I will keep it myself. It is now hanging on my wall \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I have been searching for information and I suspect that it is a mask from the Ivory Coast, Liberia. I am curious, is it a mask of interest or is it made for the tourist trade? Bob:\u00a0 Your mask, with its clever adornments, should look good on your wall. It is a nice piece of decorative art and\u00a0 worth the price you paid. I can see hints of Liberia, Ivory Coast and Mali. Take a look at the recent blog titled \u201cBamana Ntoma mask from Mali,\u201d specifically the difference between an authentic artifact and a tourist item. Roosje:\u00a0 I have just send you some photos of the mask, but I noticed that they turned out quite small. I will send you a larger and sharper front view as soon as possible. Bob:\u00a0 Thanks for the higher res photo. After doing some Photoshop work on the lighting, I can clearly see this is a handsome mask, so I want to share it with our viewers. Some African masks carved for the tourist trade are worth collecting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5385","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\/5385","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=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5387,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions\/5387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}