{"id":7453,"date":"2018-11-02T15:38:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=7453"},"modified":"2018-11-02T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:38:43","slug":"should-you-buy-this-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/should-you-buy-this-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you buy this mask?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is called an Agbogho mmuuo from the Ashanti people of\u00a0 Ghana, West Africa. Sometimes the sellers of these round carvings will tell you more about their derivation, which goes like this…\u00a0 “Translating into the Queen of women, this mask represents a wealthy woman of high status.\u00a0 She personifies strength, beauty, and pride.\u00a0 It is typically worn during performances at funerals and other ceremonies.\u00a0 Seeking to illustrate maiden spirits, men dress up in these masks and parade as adolescent girls to exaggerate their\u00a0features.\u00a0 Shows including the mimickers are also joined by musicians who chat \u2018Mmanwu si n\u2019igwe\u2019 \u2013 meaning the masked spirit from the sky and \u2018Udemu na lenu\u2019 \u2013 meaning my fame is potent.”<\/p>\n

It’s a good story and might have some truth in it. Tons of these masks have been sold to tourist and beginning collectors for many years, but they were never worn for dance or any other cultural reasons\"\"<\/a>. Because of that, I would not buy one for my collection. However, you could look at this one and feel much differently. It is very handsome and looks like African traditional art. Just be sure you don’t pay a lot of money for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is called an Agbogho mmuuo from the Ashanti people of\u00a0 Ghana, West Africa. Sometimes the sellers of these round carvings will tell you more about their derivation, which goes like this…\u00a0 “Translating into the Queen of women, this mask represents a wealthy woman of high status.\u00a0 She personifies strength, beauty, and pride.\u00a0 It is typically worn during performances at funerals and other ceremonies.\u00a0 Seeking to illustrate maiden spirits, men dress up in these masks and parade as adolescent girls to exaggerate their\u00a0features.\u00a0 Shows including the mimickers are also joined by musicians who chat \u2018Mmanwu si n\u2019igwe\u2019 \u2013 meaning the masked spirit from the sky and \u2018Udemu na lenu\u2019 \u2013 meaning my fame is potent.” It’s a good story and might have some truth in it. Tons of these masks have been sold to tourist and beginning collectors for many years, but they were never worn for dance or any other cultural reasons. Because of that, I would not buy one for my collection. However, you could look at this one and feel much differently. It is very handsome and looks like African traditional art. Just be sure you don’t pay a lot of money for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453","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=7453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7455,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions\/7455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}