{"id":5846,"date":"2017-12-01T21:29:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2017-12-01T21:31:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T21:31:25","slug":"unusual-mexican-decorative-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/unusual-mexican-decorative-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Mexican decorative mask"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> I have been trying to ID this mask for some time. It was given to me back in the 70’s. So far, I have been told it could be a pre-revolution Chinese mask, an ancient feng shui and a possibleTibetian. Could I please draw on your expertise to finally confirm the mask’s origin. It is 13 inches long and 17 inches wide across the wing tips, with the face being 7 inches wide.\u00a0 Pete, 1246<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I’ve never seen this particular character before, but I do recognize it as a Mexican decorative– the only form of tourist mask I feel is good enough to interest collectors. These artistic carvings are sometimes made by village craftsmen of authentic masks, or they can come from special work shops. The state that produces the most is Guerrero. They are made for sale to tourist and not for actual dancing. If this unusual category interest you, I suggest the book, Masks of the World<\/em> by Ibold & Yohn. There you can learn more about these decoratives, and authentic Mexican masks… as well as masks from everywhere else.\u00a0 B<\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Q:\u00a0 I have been trying to ID this mask for some time. It was given to me back in the 70’s. So far, I have been told it could be a pre-revolution Chinese mask, an ancient feng shui and a possibleTibetian. Could I please draw on your expertise to finally confirm the mask’s origin. It is 13 inches long and 17 inches wide across the wing tips, with the face being 7 inches wide.\u00a0 Pete, 1246 A:\u00a0 I’ve never seen this particular character before, but I do recognize it as a Mexican decorative– the only form of tourist mask I feel is good enough to interest collectors. These artistic carvings are sometimes made by village craftsmen of authentic masks, or they can come from special work shops. The state that produces the most is Guerrero. They are made for sale to tourist and not for actual dancing. If this unusual category interest you, I suggest the book, Masks of the World by Ibold & Yohn. There you can learn more about these decoratives, and authentic Mexican masks… as well as masks from everywhere else.\u00a0 B  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5846","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\/5846","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=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5851,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions\/5851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}