{"id":5490,"date":"2017-07-24T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2017-07-26T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T13:04:20","slug":"pre-columbian-burial-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/pre-columbian-burial-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Columbian burial mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1191.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5491\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1191-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1191-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1191-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1191-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1191-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Here is a burial masks made of pure gold from the Oro Museo in Bogota, Colombia.\u00a0 Amy, 1191<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> In the spirit of full disclosure, Amy is one of my beautiful daughter-in-laws. I&#8217;m sure she enjoyed her visit to the museum. Burial masks could be found outside of Columbia in some other Central and South American countries before 1492. They are not unusual, and were often made of materials other than precious metals.<\/p>\n<p>The museum is one of the most visited tourist highlights in the country. It receives around 500,000 tourists per year. It displays a selection of <a title=\"Pre-Columbian era\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pre-Columbian_era\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">pre-Columbian<\/span><\/a> gold and other metal alloys. Together with <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Pottery\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pottery\">pottery<\/a>, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Stone\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stone\">stone<\/a>, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Animal shell\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Animal_shell\">shell<\/a>, <\/span><a title=\"Wood\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wood\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">wood<\/span><\/a> and <a title=\"Textile\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Textile\">textile<\/a> <a title=\"Archaeology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archaeology\">archaeological<\/a> objects, these items, made of what to <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Amerindian\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amerindian\">indigenous<\/a> cultures was a sacred <a title=\"Metal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metal\">metal<\/a>, testify to the life and thought of different societies before the conquest of the <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Spanish.\u00a0 from Wikipedia<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\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; top: 47px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\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<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; top: 47px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\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; top: 47px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\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<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>Q:\u00a0 Here is a burial masks made of pure gold from the Oro Museo in Bogota, Colombia.\u00a0 Amy, 1191 A: In the spirit of full disclosure, Amy is one of my beautiful daughter-in-laws. I&#8217;m sure she enjoyed her visit to the museum. Burial masks could be found outside of Columbia in some other Central and South American countries before 1492. They are not unusual, and were often made of materials other than precious metals. The museum is one of the most visited tourist highlights in the country. It receives around 500,000 tourists per year. It displays a selection of pre-Columbian gold and other metal alloys. Together with pottery, stone, shell, wood and textile archaeological objects, these items, made of what to indigenous cultures was a sacred metal, testify to the life and thought of different societies before the conquest of the Spanish.\u00a0 from Wikipedia Save Save Save Save Save Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","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=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}