{"id":650,"date":"2013-08-21T22:22:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T22:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2015-10-26T21:09:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T21:09:53","slug":"turtle-shells-are-a-favorite-in-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/turtle-shells-are-a-favorite-in-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtle shells are a favorite in Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-644\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-531n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-644\" alt=\"Tibetan turtle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-531n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-531n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-531n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tibetan turtle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I found this mask at a flea market in Belgium yesterday. Thing is that it&#8217;s REALLY well made and I&#8217;d like to know if it&#8217;s in any particular ancient style you know of.\u00a0 Sam, 531<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> This is called a Kapala turtle mask and used for Tantric Buddhist ceremonies in the Himalayas or just for good luck in the home. <!--more-->They can be made of real turtle shells or wood. Look at the one in our India &amp; Himalayas category.\u00a0 <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I found this mask at a flea market in Belgium yesterday. Thing is that it&#8217;s REALLY well made and I&#8217;d like to know if it&#8217;s in any particular ancient style you know of.\u00a0 Sam, 531 A: This is called a Kapala turtle mask and used for Tantric Buddhist ceremonies in the Himalayas or just for good luck in the home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-himalayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}