{"id":6760,"date":"2018-07-20T15:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2018-07-20T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T15:12:17","slug":"ogoni-masks-from-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/ogoni-masks-from-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogoni masks from Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div class=\"m_-1664081907875124697Created m_-1664081907875124697on m_-1664081907875124697Form m_-1664081907875124697Builder\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#f7f9fc\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<table id=\"m_-1664081907875124697emailFieldsTable\" class=\"m_-1664081907875124697mceEditable\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px !important;\" bgcolor=\"white\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1398a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6761\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1398a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1398a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1398a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1398a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1398a-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Because of a heavy depression I started to make masks on a very basic level. The mask in attachment really interests me but I have no clue on where to position it. I was thinking Ogoni but I can&#8217;t retrace it there.\u00a0 Bart, 1398<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> Unfortunately your photo is low resolution, so I picked a sharper example. This beautiful black &amp; white Ogoni has the separated-to-move lower jaw, the snub nose, diamond-shaped lips, coiffure with side parting and piercing around the rim that we&#8217;ve come to expect from the Ogoni culture. Your yellow mask is also pictured. Do you actually carve and paint tribal masks? Could you send us a photo of one of your pieces? <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1398b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6762\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1398b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1398b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1398b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1398b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1398b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Q:\u00a0 Because of a heavy depression I started to make masks on a very basic level. The mask in attachment really interests me but I have no clue on where to position it. I was thinking Ogoni but I can&#8217;t retrace it there.\u00a0 Bart, 1398 A:\u00a0 Unfortunately your photo is low resolution, so I picked a sharper example. This beautiful black &amp; white Ogoni has the separated-to-move lower jaw, the snub nose, diamond-shaped lips, coiffure with side parting and piercing around the rim that we&#8217;ve come to expect from the Ogoni culture. Your yellow mask is also pictured. Do you actually carve and paint tribal masks? Could you send us a photo of one of your pieces? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6760","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\/6760","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=6760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6763,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6760\/revisions\/6763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}