{"id":6609,"date":"2018-06-02T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=6609"},"modified":"2018-06-02T19:19:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T19:19:57","slug":"new-guinea-wood-carving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/new-guinea-wood-carving\/","title":{"rendered":"New Guinea wood carving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1376a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6610\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1376a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1376a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1376a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1376a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1376a-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I recently acquired a PNG yam ceremony carving from the Netherlander and remembered that you had a yam god mask posted on your website.\u00a0Maybe you are not interested in carvings but I figure I will share them with you and as always, I&#8217;m very interested in hearing your opinions.\u00a0Photos are stock, carvings are currently in transit.\u00a0 David, 1376<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Your carving is certainly from Papua New Guinea and a very handsome piece of folk art. I&#8217;ve never seen a yam mask this long and narrow. How tall is it? What is that little knob for on the bottom? Perhaps you can find someone who specializes in PNG or oceanic material who could tell you what it is. Collectors often refer to carvings that emphasize a human face a mask, even though it is for some other purpose. <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1376b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6611\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1376b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1376b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1376b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1376b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-1376b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_extra\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I recently acquired a PNG yam ceremony carving from the Netherlander and remembered that you had a yam god mask posted on your website.\u00a0Maybe you are not interested in carvings but I figure I will share them with you and as always, I&#8217;m very interested in hearing your opinions.\u00a0Photos are stock, carvings are currently in transit.\u00a0 David, 1376 A:\u00a0 Your carving is certainly from Papua New Guinea and a very handsome piece of folk art. I&#8217;ve never seen a yam mask this long and narrow. How tall is it? What is that little knob for on the bottom? Perhaps you can find someone who specializes in PNG or oceanic material who could tell you what it is. Collectors often refer to carvings that emphasize a human face a mask, even though it is for some other purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609","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=6609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6614,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions\/6614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}