{"id":667,"date":"2013-08-23T21:28:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T21:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2015-11-08T20:32:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:32:10","slug":"from-the-remote-areas-of-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/from-the-remote-areas-of-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"From the remote areas of Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-668\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-535n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-668\" alt=\"Borneo or Sulawesi\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-535n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-535n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-535n-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Borneo or Sulawesi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> The seller bought this mask 20 years ago in Bali. But he doesn&#8217;t think it comes from there. Someone told him it was from Sulawesi and that it could have been made to celebrate dead people. It&#8217;s wood and 8&#8243; x 5&#8243;\u00a0 large with hair, cloth and a wood stopper attached to a cord. Do you have any idea of its true origin and age?\u00a0 Philip, 535<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Just north of Bali are the much larger islands of Sulawesi and Borneo. Either is a possibility. This appears to be an ethnographic artifact worth learning more about. <!--more-->Start with the Dayak culture of Borneo&#8217;s interior. Let&#8217;s hope that someone recognizes this mask and will share their knowledge with the rest of us in the space below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: The seller bought this mask 20 years ago in Bali. But he doesn&#8217;t think it comes from there. Someone told him it was from Sulawesi and that it could have been made to celebrate dead people. It&#8217;s wood and 8&#8243; x 5&#8243;\u00a0 large with hair, cloth and a wood stopper attached to a cord. Do you have any idea of its true origin and age?\u00a0 Philip, 535 A: Just north of Bali are the much larger islands of Sulawesi and Borneo. Either is a possibility. This appears to be an ethnographic artifact worth learning more about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","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\/667","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=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/3171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}