{"id":6559,"date":"2018-05-18T15:50:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2018-05-18T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:56:04","slug":"chokwe-pwo-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/chokwe-pwo-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Chokwe Pwo mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Re-arranging my masks around on the walls, I realized I had no information on this mask. It was given to me by my husband as a gift many, many moons ago. He bought it from a dealer in Essex, Ct who sold masks. Only thing I can say…it’s light weight wood and appears to be in good condition. Would appreciate information.\u00a0 Mickey, 1366<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Masks styled after the famous Pwo mask of the Chokwe tribe in Angola, West Africa, are very popular with collectors. Many are available on the internet for an affordable price. I would give yours a value of B-<\/strong>. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The second photo is of a beautiful Pwo from a museum. You might not have to be wealthy to afford one like this! I’ve seen reproductions that look as good.<\/p>\n

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  Q:\u00a0 Re-arranging my masks around on the walls, I realized I had no information on this mask. It was given to me by my husband as a gift many, many moons ago. He bought it from a dealer in Essex, Ct who sold masks. Only thing I can say…it’s light weight wood and appears to be in good condition. Would appreciate information.\u00a0 Mickey, 1366 A:\u00a0 Masks styled after the famous Pwo mask of the Chokwe tribe in Angola, West Africa, are very popular with collectors. Many are available on the internet for an affordable price. I would give yours a value of B-. The second photo is of a beautiful Pwo from a museum. You might not have to be wealthy to afford one like this! I’ve seen reproductions that look as good.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6559","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\/6559","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=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6566,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions\/6566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}