{"id":5476,"date":"2017-07-14T18:11:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T18:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2017-07-14T18:11:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T18:11:34","slug":"la-puta-mask-from-naolinco-veracruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/la-puta-mask-from-naolinco-veracruz\/","title":{"rendered":"La Puta mask from Naolinco, Veracruz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In case some of you don’t know Spanish, La Puta means whore. These characters often show up in Mexican dances and parades.<\/p>\n

More from Aaron on his buying trip to Veracruz, Mexico:\u00a0 “Another guy, who wasn\u2019t a mask maker but sold sweets in front of his house, had a truly amazing collection.\u00a0 As we passed by, I admired his collection, and he invited me into his tiny 2-room home.\u00a0 Classic Mexican hospitality.\u00a0 This guy had nothing, probably made $2000\/year.\u00a0 I asked him if he was willing to sell any of them, and he said they belonged to his children and grandchildren, so no dice.\u00a0 I could have made him quite wealthy by Naolinco standards, but he put family before money.\u00a0 Classic Mexican values.\u00a0 He let me take a photo of it. What do you think, does this guy have a first-class collection or what?”<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 All of the masks are beautifully made. Some have been used and the others were made to be used, but were sold instead. 50 years ago a similar group of 17 masks from Noalinco would look different, 100 years ago even more different. Authentic masks, as well as other folk art, are always evolving.\u00a0 A\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case some of you don’t know Spanish, La Puta means whore. These characters often show up in Mexican dances and parades. More from Aaron on his buying trip to Veracruz, Mexico:\u00a0 “Another guy, who wasn\u2019t a mask maker but sold sweets in front of his house, had a truly amazing collection.\u00a0 As we passed by, I admired his collection, and he invited me into his tiny 2-room home.\u00a0 Classic Mexican hospitality.\u00a0 This guy had nothing, probably made $2000\/year.\u00a0 I asked him if he was willing to sell any of them, and he said they belonged to his children and grandchildren, so no dice.\u00a0 I could have made him quite wealthy by Naolinco standards, but he put family before money.\u00a0 Classic Mexican values.\u00a0 He let me take a photo of it. What do you think, does this guy have a first-class collection or what?” A:\u00a0 All of the masks are beautifully made. Some have been used and the others were made to be used, but were sold instead. 50 years ago a similar group of 17 masks from Noalinco would look different, 100 years ago even more different. Authentic masks, as well as other folk art, are always evolving.\u00a0 A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476","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=5476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}