{"id":5665,"date":"2017-09-15T17:27:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T17:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2017-09-15T17:27:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T17:27:17","slug":"mexican-or-guatemalan-clay-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/mexican-or-guatemalan-clay-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican or Guatemalan clay mask?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I bought this mask 30 years ago while traveling in Mexico.\u00a0 It might be from around Oaxaca.\u00a0 I find the figure in the forehead to be very intriguing. \u00a0Can you tell me anything about it.\u00a0 It’s either clay or a very hard plaster.\u00a0 Beverly, 1216<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have seen these painted ceramics before and assumed yours was from Guatemala because of the features. The first Guatemalan mask in my book, Masks of the World<\/em>, on page 140, is similar to yours. But I’ve also seen Mexican masks made of terracotta. Several very experienced collectors I know consider them decoratives made strictly for the tourist trade. Clay is a terrible material to use for a mask you expect dancers to wear. However, I must say this mask will look very good on the wall.\u00a0 C+\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/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":"

Q:\u00a0 I bought this mask 30 years ago while traveling in Mexico.\u00a0 It might be from around Oaxaca.\u00a0 I find the figure in the forehead to be very intriguing. \u00a0Can you tell me anything about it.\u00a0 It’s either clay or a very hard plaster.\u00a0 Beverly, 1216 A:\u00a0 I have seen these painted ceramics before and assumed yours was from Guatemala because of the features. The first Guatemalan mask in my book, Masks of the World, on page 140, is similar to yours. But I’ve also seen Mexican masks made of terracotta. Several very experienced collectors I know consider them decoratives made strictly for the tourist trade. Clay is a terrible material to use for a mask you expect dancers to wear. However, I must say this mask will look very good on the wall.\u00a0 C+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5665","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\/5665","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=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5669,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/5669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}