{"id":6185,"date":"2018-02-22T21:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2018-02-22T21:41:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:41:21","slug":"primitive-mask-purchased-in-goa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/primitive-mask-purchased-in-goa\/","title":{"rendered":"Primitive mask purchased in Goa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1297.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6186\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1297-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1297-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1297-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1297-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1297-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong> Nate has sent me several emails with good photos of this carving he bought from a dealer in Goa. All the guy told him was that it was very old and worth a lot of money. I doubt if a mask like this comes from a prosperous ex-Portuguese colony on the West Coast of India. The big question is whether it&#8217;s an old tribal artifact or not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 I have my doubts. But if you like your masks aged, you can&#8217;t do better than this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Nate has sent me several emails with good photos of this carving he bought from a dealer in Goa. All the guy told him was that it was very old and worth a lot of money. I doubt if a mask like this comes from a prosperous ex-Portuguese colony on the West Coast of India. The big question is whether it&#8217;s an old tribal artifact or not. A:\u00a0 I have my doubts. But if you like your masks aged, you can&#8217;t do better than this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6185","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\/6185","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=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6187,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions\/6187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}