{"id":596,"date":"2013-08-10T20:06:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T20:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2015-10-28T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:36:13","slug":"wish-i-knew-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wish-i-knew-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Wish I knew more about this Mexican"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-597\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-527n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-597 \" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-527n\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-527n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-527n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-527n-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huave Indians, Oaxaca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Sticker says Oaxaca, but the Oaxacan masks I have seen are very brightly colored.\u00a0 It also has three strips of what appears to be embossed snake skin.\u00a0 Stephanie, 527<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen masks like this before, but <!--more-->don&#8217;t know for sure that they come from Oaxaca. The skin on the top is from an armadillo. Consider it to be a decorative (tourist mask). Wish I knew more.\u00a0<strong> C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a viewer comment we know this is from the Huave Indians in the Tehuantepec region of Oaxaca. <strong>B+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Sticker says Oaxaca, but the Oaxacan masks I have seen are very brightly colored.\u00a0 It also has three strips of what appears to be embossed snake skin.\u00a0 Stephanie, 527 A:\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen masks like this before, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","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\/596","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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}