{"id":702,"date":"2013-08-24T20:14:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T20:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:04:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:04:02","slug":"702","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/702\/","title":{"rendered":"A special iron mask from Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-703\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-536n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-703\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-536n\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-536n.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-536n.jpg 280w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-536n-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mali<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Purchased about 15 years ago, this looks nothing like my other African masks. The main construction\u00a0is\u00a0of thin iron. There is a woven material around the periphery of the tower-like portion of the mask. Also, a felt-like material on the forehead. There are some signs of white paint on the tower and the ears, plus\u00a0what may be attachment holes on the rear periphery. I think it may have been wearable.\u00a0 Anne &amp; Sam, 536<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Lots of handsome iron masks have been coming out of Mali in recent years from both the Dogon and Bamana people. <!--more-->This is the first one I&#8217;ve seen with ears and headdress, plus the indication of padding for comfort while wearing. For that reason I think it is quite special. Do they really wear these things?<\/p>\n<p>If you know more about iron\u00a0masks from Mali, please let us hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Purchased about 15 years ago, this looks nothing like my other African masks. The main construction\u00a0is\u00a0of thin iron. There is a woven material around the periphery of the tower-like portion of the mask. Also, a felt-like material on the forehead. There are some signs of white paint on the tower and the ears, plus\u00a0what may be attachment holes on the rear periphery. I think it may have been wearable.\u00a0 Anne &amp; Sam, 536 A: Lots of handsome iron masks have been coming out of Mali in recent years from both the Dogon and Bamana people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","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\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}