{"id":8235,"date":"2019-07-05T15:40:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=8235"},"modified":"2019-07-05T15:40:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:40:48","slug":"inuit-mystery-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/inuit-mystery-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Inuit mystery mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1590a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1590a-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1590a-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1590a.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Q:  This came out of a private collection in Illinois.  It\u2019s very lite weight measuring 8.5\u201d X 4.5\u201d not including the feathers.  Polychrome cedar ceremonial shaman&#8217;s mask from the Inuit. I\u2019m a collector.  Would you know the age of this and what type of mask is it?  It appears to have been used several times in a ceremony of sort.  PJ, 1590<\/p>\n<p>A:  I do not recognize this at all. Since I am not an expert on any of the Arctic cultures, let&#8217;s hope that one of our viewers will make a helpful comment.<\/p>\n<p>PJ, since you and the seller both specialize in these kinds of artifacts, perhaps you could share a little more information with our viewers. You can use the comment box or email me.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1590b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1590b-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1590b-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1590b.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1590c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1590c-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1590c-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1590c.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: This came out of a private collection in Illinois. It\u2019s very lite weight measuring 8.5\u201d X 4.5\u201d not including the feathers. Polychrome cedar ceremonial shaman&#8217;s mask from the Inuit. I\u2019m a collector. Would you know the age of this and what type of mask is it? It appears to have been used several times in a ceremony of sort. PJ, 1590 A: I do not recognize this at all. Since I am not an expert on any of the Arctic cultures, let&#8217;s hope that one of our viewers will make a helpful comment. PJ, since you and the seller both specialize in these kinds of artifacts, perhaps you could share a little more information with our viewers. You can use the comment box or email me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-native-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235","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=8235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8239,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8235\/revisions\/8239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}