{"id":749,"date":"2013-08-27T18:45:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:43:28","slug":"749","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/749\/","title":{"rendered":"Black characters show up everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-538n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-538n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indonesia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I recently bough this thinking it was African , but it may not be. It looks pretty old though and worn, not a tourist piece. Do you have an idea where it may be from. I collect African things so don&#8217;t intend to keep it.\u00a0 Chris, 538<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"size-full wp-image-750  \" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A:<\/strong> I can understand your attraction to this handsome piece. <!--more-->This character is black, though he was not made in Africa. The mask probably comes from somewhere in Indonesia&#8211; maybe Bali. Keep in mind that Balinese carvers try lots of different subjects and can very skillfully age the mask to make it more appealing to the market.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I recently bough this thinking it was African , but it may not be. It looks pretty old though and worn, not a tourist piece. Do you have an idea where it may be from. I collect African things so don&#8217;t intend to keep it.\u00a0 Chris, 538 A: I can understand your attraction to this handsome piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bali-java"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}