{"id":762,"date":"2013-08-29T15:13:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:42:26","slug":"scarry-animal-mask-from-rural-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/scarry-animal-mask-from-rural-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary animal mask from rural Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-760\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-539n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-760\" alt=\"Indonesia\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-539n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-539n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-539n-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indonesia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Q: Could you tell me about the value and origin of this mask?\u00a0 Susan, 539<\/p>\n<p>A: I decided to show the rear view and side view because you can clearly see how these animal masks are constructed.<!--more--> The wearer holds it to his face while opening and closing the mouth and trying to scare people. These characters are meant to protect the village from evil spirits. I think these are used in rural Bali and Java. It is hard to tell if this one was used.\u00a0 <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Could you tell me about the value and origin of this mask?\u00a0 Susan, 539 A: I decided to show the rear view and side view because you can clearly see how these animal masks are constructed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","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\/762","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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3292,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/3292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}