{"id":7309,"date":"2018-10-03T19:25:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T19:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=7309"},"modified":"2018-10-05T12:20:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:20:36","slug":"big-nwc-indian-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/big-nwc-indian-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Big NWC Indian mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7310\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455a-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455a-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455a-768x1046.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455a-752x1024.jpg 752w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455a-600x818.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455a.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 The mask is about 16 inches tall and about 12 inches wide. I believe it was acquired in the Pacific Northwest by my grandfather 40-or-so-years ago. I&#8217;m not sure what he paid for it but I believe it was an original. It was recently bequeathed to me along with 10 other masks from around the world.\u00a0Kristian, 1455<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Your mask is original in that it was carved by hand in the Pacific Northwest. I wish I knew what spirit or creature this big mask represent, and what specific culture it comes from. It was made by a lesser carver for sale to tourists. Perhaps someone will send in a helpful comment with more info. Many Americans and Canadians would enjoy this as wall art.\u00a0\u00a0 B<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7311\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455b-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455b-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455b-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455b-600x846.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-1455b.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 The mask is about 16 inches tall and about 12 inches wide. I believe it was acquired in the Pacific Northwest by my grandfather 40-or-so-years ago. I&#8217;m not sure what he paid for it but I believe it was an original. It was recently bequeathed to me along with 10 other masks from around the world.\u00a0Kristian, 1455 A: Your mask is original in that it was carved by hand in the Pacific Northwest. I wish I knew what spirit or creature this big mask represent, and what specific culture it comes from. It was made by a lesser carver for sale to tourists. Perhaps someone will send in a helpful comment with more info. Many Americans and Canadians would enjoy this as wall art.\u00a0\u00a0 B &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","category-native-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309","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=7309"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7323,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309\/revisions\/7323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}