{"id":5878,"date":"2017-12-09T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2017-12-10T00:45:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T00:45:55","slug":"another-exciting-mystery-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/another-exciting-mystery-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Another exciting mystery mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Q:\u00a0 This one is stumping me in a big way.\u00a0 The nose and nose decoration looks like they are made of bone.\u00a0 The hide is slightly hairy on the inside.\u00a0 Judging by the condition of the leather, which is rock hard, it is probably at least 30 or 40 years old, but I have no clue where it is from.\u00a0 Given that the other masks in the collection are mostly from Mexico and Nepal, my instinct is to say Nepal, but I\u2019ve never seen a Nepalese mask even remotely similar.\u00a0 Any ideas?\u00a0 Aaron, 1250<\/p>\n

A:\u00a0<\/strong> My instincts say Mexico, somewhere in the Northwest between Sonora and Jalisco. Also, I vaguely remember a similarly shaped leather mask with a snake on it from the island of Timor. But have I ever seen one exactly like this? No. Though you and I both deal in masks from all over the world, we loose on this time. But I think it is an authentic artifact worth so serious research. If only someone would help us.\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0 This one is stumping me in a big way.\u00a0 The nose and nose decoration looks like they are made of bone.\u00a0 The hide is slightly hairy on the inside.\u00a0 Judging by the condition of the leather, which is rock hard, it is probably at least 30 or 40 years old, but I have no clue where it is from.\u00a0 Given that the other masks in the collection are mostly from Mexico and Nepal, my instinct is to say Nepal, but I\u2019ve never seen a Nepalese mask even remotely similar.\u00a0 Any ideas?\u00a0 Aaron, 1250 A:\u00a0 My instincts say Mexico, somewhere in the Northwest between Sonora and Jalisco. Also, I vaguely remember a similarly shaped leather mask with a snake on it from the island of Timor. But have I ever seen one exactly like this? No. Though you and I both deal in masks from all over the world, we loose on this time. But I think it is an authentic artifact worth so serious research. If only someone would help us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","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=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5884,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions\/5884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}