{"id":8091,"date":"2019-05-26T19:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T19:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=8091"},"modified":"2019-05-26T19:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T19:45:16","slug":"metal-monkey-mask-from-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/metal-monkey-mask-from-bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal monkey mask from Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570a-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570a-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570a-768x1083.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570a-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570a-600x846.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570a.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>Q: Bob, thought you might enjoy this Bolivian mask I picked up a while back for $90 online. It&#8217;s painted tin, as many of the Bolivian carnival masks are, but it&#8217;s an unusual monkey form that I&#8217;ve never seen before.  Dan, 1570<\/p>\n<p>A:  Bolivian celebrations feature all kinds of masks. Probably the condor is their most common animal mask, and for almost 50 years of collecting I have seen others. Masks are an essential part of Bolivian celebrations, allowing dancers to adopt the personalities which populate the country\u2019s myths and legends. Demons, dragons and angels join representations of real-world creatures like birds, bears and beavers. <\/p>\n<p>Most interesting are the masks based on characters from Bolivian history, such as caricatures of Spanish matadors, and African slaves brought over to work in Potos\u00ed\u2019s mines. The latter are depicted with bulging eyes and extended tongues \u2014 conditions which the slaves, who suffered terribly with altitude sickness, were actually afflicted with.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570b-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570b-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570b-768x1067.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570b-737x1024.jpg 737w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570b-600x834.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570b.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570c-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570c-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570c-768x1231.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570c-639x1024.jpg 639w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570c-600x961.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-1570c.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Bob, thought you might enjoy this Bolivian mask I picked up a while back for $90 online. It&#8217;s painted tin, as many of the Bolivian carnival masks are, but it&#8217;s an unusual monkey form that I&#8217;ve never seen before. Dan, 1570 A: Bolivian celebrations feature all kinds of masks. Probably the condor is their most common animal mask, and for almost 50 years of collecting I have seen others. Masks are an essential part of Bolivian celebrations, allowing dancers to adopt the personalities which populate the country\u2019s myths and legends. Demons, dragons and angels join representations of real-world creatures like birds, bears and beavers. Most interesting are the masks based on characters from Bolivian history, such as caricatures of Spanish matadors, and African slaves brought over to work in Potos\u00ed\u2019s mines. The latter are depicted with bulging eyes and extended tongues \u2014 conditions which the slaves, who suffered terribly with altitude sickness, were actually afflicted with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8091","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\/8091","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=8091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8096,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions\/8096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}