{"id":5854,"date":"2017-12-05T22:42:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T22:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2017-12-06T14:28:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:28:31","slug":"holy-week-mask-from-nw-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/holy-week-mask-from-nw-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week mask from NW Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1247a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5855\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1247a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1247a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1247a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1247a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1247a-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> I recently won an auction with about 20 masks, most of which were tourist junk, but a few of which are interesting.\u00a0 Most seem to be from Mexico or Nepal.\u00a0 In this group are several genuine mysteries that have stumped me, and I was hoping for your help with them.\u00a0 Here is the first one.\u00a0 It\u2019s quite old, probably dating to the 1970s, judging by the extremely dry leather of the pelt.\u00a0 It looks to me like coyote pelt, which suggests it could be a fariseo mask from the Yaqui or Mayo people, but I\u2019ve never seen one looking quite like this.\u00a0 What\u2019s your take on it?\u00a0 Aaron, 1247<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> I agree with what you say. Whether it is called a fariseo, a chapokobam, pharisee or judios; whether it&#8217;s from the Mayo or Yaqui people; whether it&#8217;s from the state of Sinaloa or Sonora; you have a nice example on an indigenous Mexican artifact. I think your estimate of age is very close.\u00a0 You&#8217;re also right that it&#8217;s made out of wood and coyote skin. Covering the eye holes with a patch of decorated screen is not uncommon with fariseos from this area.\u00a0<strong> A<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1247b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5857\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1247b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1247b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1247b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1247b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1247b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I recently won an auction with about 20 masks, most of which were tourist junk, but a few of which are interesting.\u00a0 Most seem to be from Mexico or Nepal.\u00a0 In this group are several genuine mysteries that have stumped me, and I was hoping for your help with them.\u00a0 Here is the first one.\u00a0 It\u2019s quite old, probably dating to the 1970s, judging by the extremely dry leather of the pelt.\u00a0 It looks to me like coyote pelt, which suggests it could be a fariseo mask from the Yaqui or Mayo people, but I\u2019ve never seen one looking quite like this.\u00a0 What\u2019s your take on it?\u00a0 Aaron, 1247 A:\u00a0 I agree with what you say. Whether it is called a fariseo, a chapokobam, pharisee or judios; whether it&#8217;s from the Mayo or Yaqui people; whether it&#8217;s from the state of Sinaloa or Sonora; you have a nice example on an indigenous Mexican artifact. I think your estimate of age is very close.\u00a0 You&#8217;re also right that it&#8217;s made out of wood and coyote skin. Covering the eye holes with a patch of decorated screen is not uncommon with fariseos from this area.\u00a0 A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5854","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\/5854","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=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}