{"id":5895,"date":"2017-12-15T19:06:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T19:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5895"},"modified":"2017-12-15T19:06:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T19:06:58","slug":"mexican-clay-mask-decorative-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/mexican-clay-mask-decorative-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican clay mask? Decorative or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1253a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5896\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1253a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1253a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1253a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1253a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1253a-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yet another mystery out of the same batch.\u00a0 This one is large enough for a normal human face.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen clay masks used in ceremonies before, but it\u2019s rare.\u00a0 Normally, when I see a clay mask, I assume it\u2019s a decorative tourist mask.\u00a0 In this case, I am hesitating, because it seems like it\u2019s not really attractive enough to be a tourist mask.\u00a0 Do you have any idea what it is?\u00a0 Aaron, 1253<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I agree this will not appeal to most tourists. And don&#8217;t rule out Peru or other countries, they make a lot of terracotta masks, as well as Mexico. I have not seen one that looks like this. Maybe someone out there has.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1253b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5897\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1253b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1253b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1253b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1253b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/aaaMystrySolvd-1253b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Yet another mystery out of the same batch.\u00a0 This one is large enough for a normal human face.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen clay masks used in ceremonies before, but it\u2019s rare.\u00a0 Normally, when I see a clay mask, I assume it\u2019s a decorative tourist mask.\u00a0 In this case, I am hesitating, because it seems like it\u2019s not really attractive enough to be a tourist mask.\u00a0 Do you have any idea what it is?\u00a0 Aaron, 1253 A:\u00a0 I agree this will not appeal to most tourists. And don&#8217;t rule out Peru or other countries, they make a lot of terracotta masks, as well as Mexico. I have not seen one that looks like this. Maybe someone out there has. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5895","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\/5895","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=5895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions\/5898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}