{"id":7167,"date":"2018-09-19T19:26:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2018-09-26T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:05:21","slug":"where-is-this-mask-from-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/where-is-this-mask-from-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is this mask from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7168\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443a-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443a-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443a-768x1133.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443a-694x1024.jpg 694w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443a-600x885.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443a.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I am doing some research for a community group on museum objects that are locked away in stores with no information about them. We have located this mask but can not find any information on it.\u00a0 Tara, 1443<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> This is a mystery mask. It is labeled &#8220;East Africa,&#8221; but I doubt if that is where it is from. Though it has a primitive look, this wood carving has been quickly made with steel carving tools and a branding tool. It&#8217;s probably made for sale to tourist. The question is &#8220;where does it come from?&#8221;\u00a0 If you have any ideas, please make a comment. Let&#8217;s help Tara.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7169\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443b-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443b-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443b-768x1231.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443b-639x1024.jpg 639w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443b-600x962.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1443b.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I am doing some research for a community group on museum objects that are locked away in stores with no information about them. We have located this mask but can not find any information on it.\u00a0 Tara, 1443 A:\u00a0 This is a mystery mask. It is labeled &#8220;East Africa,&#8221; but I doubt if that is where it is from. Though it has a primitive look, this wood carving has been quickly made with steel carving tools and a branding tool. It&#8217;s probably made for sale to tourist. The question is &#8220;where does it come from?&#8221;\u00a0 If you have any ideas, please make a comment. Let&#8217;s help Tara. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167","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=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7269,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions\/7269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}