{"id":5943,"date":"2017-12-30T02:19:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T02:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2018-01-26T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:30:22","slug":"inexpensive-west-african-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/inexpensive-west-african-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Inexpensive West African mask"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> I found this mask at an antique shop a few years ago. Think I paid around $15. It is 10\u201d long and 7\u201d wide. I would like to find out more about it and hope you can help me. Thanks in advance!\u00a0 Renske, 1259<\/p>\n

A:\u00a0<\/strong> That’s a wonderful mask for $15. People will pay hundreds for a careful reproduction and thousands for an authentic mask.<\/p>\n

Why not this one? Though it looks West Africa, it is a mixture of many different tribes. All I can tell for sure is that is was artificially aged. I am not an expert on African masks.<\/p>\n

If you see a mask you like in a thrift shop, buy it. When you become a serious collector you may want to get rid of some. I have, but I’ve kept a few because I still enjoy them.\u00a0 C<\/strong>\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0 I found this mask at an antique shop a few years ago. Think I paid around $15. It is 10\u201d long and 7\u201d wide. I would like to find out more about it and hope you can help me. Thanks in advance!\u00a0 Renske, 1259 A:\u00a0 That’s a wonderful mask for $15. People will pay hundreds for a careful reproduction and thousands for an authentic mask. Why not this one? Though it looks West Africa, it is a mixture of many different tribes. All I can tell for sure is that is was artificially aged. I am not an expert on African masks. If you see a mask you like in a thrift shop, buy it. When you become a serious collector you may want to get rid of some. I have, but I’ve kept a few because I still enjoy them.\u00a0 C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943","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=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5949,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions\/5949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}