{"id":7606,"date":"2018-12-16T02:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T02:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=7606"},"modified":"2018-12-16T02:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T02:23:29","slug":"citipati-ging-mask-from-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/citipati-ging-mask-from-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Citipati (Ging) Mask From Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\"\"<\/a>I believe this is an older Ging mask per the following information I found on the net.\u00a0 “In the Himalayan Buddhist Cham dances 3 different levels of skull masks & skeleton costumes are used. The lowest level of skeleton dancers are the Ging, boy monks who dance in a basic costume and skull mask. They play a semi-comical character and have no skull diadem and no ear decorations– no adornments of any kind. This can be considered the entry-level of skeleton dancers.”\u00a0 Dan, 1498<\/p>\n

A:\u00a0 Dan is a very serious collector and I am pleased he is sharing this with us. Study it carefully. This is authentic, old and used in culture mask that is worthy of a museum.\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I believe this is an older Ging mask per the following information I found on the net.\u00a0 “In the Himalayan Buddhist Cham dances 3 different levels of skull masks & skeleton costumes are used. The lowest level of skeleton dancers are the Ging, boy monks who dance in a basic costume and skull mask. They play a semi-comical character and have no skull diadem and no ear decorations– no adornments of any kind. This can be considered the entry-level of skeleton dancers.”\u00a0 Dan, 1498 A:\u00a0 Dan is a very serious collector and I am pleased he is sharing this with us. Study it carefully. This is authentic, old and used in culture mask that is worthy of a museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-himalayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606","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=7606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7610,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions\/7610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}