{"id":7709,"date":"2019-01-22T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=7709"},"modified":"2019-01-22T15:57:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:57:35","slug":"puno-maiden-spirit-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/puno-maiden-spirit-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Puno maiden spirit mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Q: I bought 5 carved wooden masks from an estate sale in 2008 for about $10 each. I knew nothing about masks and didn’t receive any info about them when I purchased them. I just knew I really liked them. (The sale was like an indoor “yard sale” for an dear gentleman who died–had traveled a lot and collected a lot of art\/objects from this travels. They all look old, none are ornate, none have any bright colors (natural colors, not much painting), 4 have faces roughly of this one’s shape but one has a round face with raffia bears.This mask’s size: about 13″ tall, 7″ wide, 5″ deep at lip and 6-7″ deep at very top. Sallie, 1512<\/p>\n

A: From Gabon, this mask is a Punu and is a Spirit Maiden Mask. It portrays a beautiful maiden with her whitened face and serene expression. As in life this beautiful maiden wears an elaborate hairstyle. <\/p>\n

The mask would be worn with a colorful costume covering her body. Although the mask has an Asian expression, no such connection has been established. It represents a female guardian spirit in the initiation of young girls, funerary rites, ancestor cults, and also in dances of the full moon. <\/p>\n

The refined features and elaborate coiffure of the Puno masks mirror the appearance of tribal women. Social cohesion is ensured by the society, whose primary role is to subjugate harmful forest spirits. <\/p>\n

The white pigments on masks allude to the anti-witchcraft powers of this group. The Puno make only masks of women, with elaborate hairstyles, features which appear somewhat Asian, and white kaolin pigments. They are worn by Moukouji initiates, who are often on stilts. They are thought to represent ancestor’s faces. A or B<\/p>\n

Since practically all African masks on the market are reproductions antiqued to make them look old and used. Probably this is one if them. However, the surface is unusual and the rear photo suggests actual wear. Does anyone want to comment?\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Q: I bought 5 carved wooden masks from an estate sale in 2008 for about $10 each. I knew nothing about masks and didn’t receive any info about them when I purchased them. I just knew I really liked them. (The sale was like an indoor “yard sale” for an dear gentleman who died–had traveled a lot and collected a lot of art\/objects from this travels. They all look old, none are ornate, none have any bright colors (natural colors, not much painting), 4 have faces roughly of this one’s shape but one has a round face with raffia bears.This mask’s size: about 13″ tall, 7″ wide, 5″ deep at lip and 6-7″ deep at very top. Sallie, 1512 A: From Gabon, this mask is a Punu and is a Spirit Maiden Mask. It portrays a beautiful maiden with her whitened face and serene expression. As in life this beautiful maiden wears an elaborate hairstyle. The mask would be worn with a colorful costume covering her body. Although the mask has an Asian expression, no such connection has been established. It represents a female guardian spirit in the initiation of young girls, funerary rites, ancestor cults, and also in dances of the full moon. The refined features and elaborate coiffure of the Puno masks mirror the appearance of tribal women. Social cohesion is ensured by the society, whose primary role is to subjugate harmful forest spirits. The white pigments on masks allude to the anti-witchcraft powers of this group. The Puno make only masks of women, with elaborate hairstyles, features which appear somewhat Asian, and white kaolin pigments. They are worn by Moukouji initiates, who are often on stilts. They are thought to represent ancestor’s faces. A or B Since practically all African masks on the market are reproductions antiqued to make them look old and used. Probably this is one if them. However, the surface is unusual and the rear photo suggests actual wear. Does anyone want to comment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709","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=7709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7714,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions\/7714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}