{"id":8023,"date":"2019-05-08T14:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=8023"},"modified":"2019-05-08T14:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:43:14","slug":"bwa-rooster-mask-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/bwa-rooster-mask-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"Bwa rooster mask, Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560a-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560a-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560a-768x1202.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560a-654x1024.jpg 654w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560a-600x939.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560a.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>Q:  What type of mask and how much should I sell it for as I no longer have the space to keep it. Jeanne, 1560<\/p>\n<p>A:  The Bwa usually carve masks that symbolize animals or spirits of the bush which are then worn during ceremonies for the new crop, initiations or funerals. They are highly abstracted and come in many different design variations. You don&#8217;t see a lot of them for sale, and this can be confusing for beginning collectors.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, but as a professional appraiser I cannot give you a selling price or any marketing information without payment of a fee.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560b-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560b-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560b-768x1120.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560b-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560b-600x875.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560b.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560c-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560c-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560c-768x1101.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560c-714x1024.jpg 714w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560c-600x860.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1560c.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What type of mask and how much should I sell it for as I no longer have the space to keep it. Jeanne, 1560 A: The Bwa usually carve masks that symbolize animals or spirits of the bush which are then worn during ceremonies for the new crop, initiations or funerals. They are highly abstracted and come in many different design variations. You don&#8217;t see a lot of them for sale, and this can be confusing for beginning collectors. I&#8217;m sorry, but as a professional appraiser I cannot give you a selling price or any marketing information without payment of a fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8023","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\/8023","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=8023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8027,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions\/8027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}