{"id":6198,"date":"2018-02-24T21:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T21:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2018-02-24T21:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T21:57:32","slug":"lipiko-mask-from-east-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/lipiko-mask-from-east-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipiko mask from East Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6199\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1300-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1300-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1300-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1300-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I love these big helmet masks. It&#8217;s a 10-inch-high Lipiko of the Makonde people from Tanzania or Mozambique. It would be kept\u00a0 in a small hut behind the village elder&#8217;s home and shown at feasts or during initiation ceremonies. Represents a person of importance to the village for one reason or another&#8211; flattering or otherwise. They are well known for their facial scarifications and lip-plugs. The hair is real, probably from a barber shop. Still popular in culture, you can easily find them, often at a reasonable price. This one is an especially nice example that was recently sold at Sothebys. Please blow up the photo and tell me how those scars were made.\u00a0<strong> A+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love these big helmet masks. It&#8217;s a 10-inch-high Lipiko of the Makonde people from Tanzania or Mozambique. It would be kept\u00a0 in a small hut behind the village elder&#8217;s home and shown at feasts or during initiation ceremonies. Represents a person of importance to the village for one reason or another&#8211; flattering or otherwise. They are well known for their facial scarifications and lip-plugs. The hair is real, probably from a barber shop. Still popular in culture, you can easily find them, often at a reasonable price. This one is an especially nice example that was recently sold at Sothebys. Please blow up the photo and tell me how those scars were made.\u00a0 A+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6198","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\/6198","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=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6204,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions\/6204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}