{"id":7782,"date":"2019-02-24T20:14:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T20:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2019-02-24T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T20:15:12","slug":"south-american-indian-mask-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/south-american-indian-mask-2\/","title":{"rendered":"South American Indian mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524a-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524a-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524a-768x1107.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524a-711x1024.jpg 711w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524a-600x865.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524a.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a>Q:  Appreciate any idea of value and tribe that hand-carved this mask. I believe it is from southern Colombia. I was told several years ago they were done by a rare tribe near the Amazon region but I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s true.  Sally, 1524<\/p>\n<p>A:  I have seen very few of these masks. Back on March 31, 2017, I posted #1138, which is quite similar to Sally&#8217;s. It was my understanding that these unpainted carved-wooden mask probably came from a tribe below the southern border of the Amazon such as the Chaco, Guarani or other small cultures close to Northern Argentina. I wonder if they are painted for actual use? Hard to say. <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524b-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524b-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524b-768x1119.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524b-703x1024.jpg 703w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524b-600x874.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524b.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524c-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524c-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524c-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524c-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1524c.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Appreciate any idea of value and tribe that hand-carved this mask. I believe it is from southern Colombia. I was told several years ago they were done by a rare tribe near the Amazon region but I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s true. Sally, 1524 A: I have seen very few of these masks. Back on March 31, 2017, I posted #1138, which is quite similar to Sally&#8217;s. It was my understanding that these unpainted carved-wooden mask probably came from a tribe below the southern border of the Amazon such as the Chaco, Guarani or other small cultures close to Northern Argentina. I wonder if they are painted for actual use? Hard to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","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=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7786,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions\/7786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}