{"id":579,"date":"2013-06-10T19:37:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2015-10-26T21:12:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T21:12:35","slug":"colonial-india-or-more-recent-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/colonial-india-or-more-recent-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial India or more recent Nepal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-502n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-582 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-502n.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-502n\" width=\"300\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-502n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-502n-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong> I purchased this mask about 10 years ago just because it was interesting. The story the seller told me was her grandmother wore it at Purim time as a child in the 1920&#8217;s.To me he kind of resembles what Haman may have looked like, but I do not know if this story is true, or if this is just a piece of touristy folk art made many years later. Any ideas?\u00a0 Allison, 502<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> It may not be that old, but it&#8217;s not a typical tourist mask either. <!--more-->We know the mask comes from Nepal because of the red seal. I would guess Southern Nepal, close to Northern India. Take a look at the &#8220;India &amp; Himalayas&#8221; section of this site. <strong>B+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I purchased this mask about 10 years ago just because it was interesting. The story the seller told me was her grandmother wore it at Purim time as a child in the 1920&#8217;s.To me he kind of resembles what Haman may have looked like, but I do not know if this story is true, or if this is just a piece of touristy folk art made many years later. Any ideas?\u00a0 Allison, 502 A: It may not be that old, but it&#8217;s not a typical tourist mask either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-himalayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/3348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}