{"id":6568,"date":"2018-05-19T16:01:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2018-05-20T18:34:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T18:34:18","slug":"kuba-bwoom-mask-from-the-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/kuba-bwoom-mask-from-the-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuba Bwoom mask from the DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Q:\u00a0 I recently became interested in collecting African masks and have brought few books on the subject. Unfortunately, I’m still pretty lost on dating and evaluating them. I saw a few masks at an estate sale and am wondering if you can give me some guidance. Thanks!\u00a0 David, 1367<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is a Bwoom mask from the Kuba people of the Democratic Republic of<\/span><\/a> <\/strong> the Congo.<\/strong><\/span><\/a>The Kuba are a large group of different tribes and their masks come in many different styles. The Bwoom is usually a helmet masks with much bead work. This one is low in beads and color, but is well designed and crafted.\u00a0 B-<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0 I recently became interested in collecting African masks and have brought few books on the subject. Unfortunately, I’m still pretty lost on dating and evaluating them. I saw a few masks at an estate sale and am wondering if you can give me some guidance. Thanks!\u00a0 David, 1367 A:\u00a0 This is a Bwoom mask from the Kuba people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The Kuba are a large group of different tribes and their masks come in many different styles. The Bwoom is usually a helmet masks with much bead work. This one is low in beads and color, but is well designed and crafted.\u00a0 B-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6568","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\/6568","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=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6576,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions\/6576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}