{"id":5645,"date":"2017-09-10T21:32:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T21:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2017-09-10T21:32:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T21:32:39","slug":"lele-mask-from-the-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/lele-mask-from-the-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Lele mask from the Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div class=\"m_-8980696012960197346Created m_-8980696012960197346on m_-8980696012960197346Form m_-8980696012960197346Builder\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#f7f9fc\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<table id=\"m_-8980696012960197346emailFieldsTable\" class=\"m_-8980696012960197346mceEditable\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px !important;\" bgcolor=\"white\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5646\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1213-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1213-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1213-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1213-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1213-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> These are a couple of the mask I own. I know they are from the Congo, and collected from a time when it was Zaire. One on the right used to have grass as a headpiece but it could not make the customs.\u00a0 Ann, 1213<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I picked the one that I thought would interest collectors the most. It is from the Lele people in the West Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The more familiar Luluwa and Kuba tribes live nearby. I do not know the name or function of this particular mask. Hopefully one of our viewers might have more info to add.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 These are a couple of the mask I own. I know they are from the Congo, and collected from a time when it was Zaire. One on the right used to have grass as a headpiece but it could not make the customs.\u00a0 Ann, 1213 A:\u00a0 I picked the one that I thought would interest collectors the most. It is from the Lele people in the West Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The more familiar Luluwa and Kuba tribes live nearby. I do not know the name or function of this particular mask. Hopefully one of our viewers might have more info to add.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5645","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\/5645","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=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5647,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions\/5647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}