{"id":825,"date":"2013-09-10T19:31:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T19:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2015-10-27T13:17:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T13:17:39","slug":"ive-never-seen-an-apache-gaan-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/ive-never-seen-an-apache-gaan-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve never seen an Apache Ga&#8217;an"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-826\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-543n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-826\" alt=\"Apache Indian\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-543n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-543n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-543n-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apache Indian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> This is a Ga&#8217;an (mountain spirit) mask used in the 1970s and 1980s, probably by the Western Apache, Din\u00e9, or Chiricahua peoples.\u00a0 It was acquired from the tribe by a Hollywood studio for use in shooting the movie &#8220;Geronimo&#8221; (1993), and I bought it from someone who used to work for the studio and was given it as a present.\u00a0 It appears it once had feathers attached to the tips of the wood.\u00a0 Incidentally, the first Geronimo movie (1952) also had Ga&#8217;an dancers in it.\u00a0 Aaron, 543<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> I normally post only one mask per person,<!--more--><\/p>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" id=\"attachment_826\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Apache Indian<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>but when I saw this one from Aaron I flipped out. How lucky we are to see an authentic Apache Ga&#8217;an mask. I hope the Apache people aren&#8217;t angry (like the Hopi) about their ceremonial masks being sold and admired by the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: This is a Ga&#8217;an (mountain spirit) mask used in the 1970s and 1980s, probably by the Western Apache, Din\u00e9, or Chiricahua peoples.\u00a0 It was acquired from the tribe by a Hollywood studio for use in shooting the movie &#8220;Geronimo&#8221; (1993), and I bought it from someone who used to work for the studio and was given it as a present.\u00a0 It appears it once had feathers attached to the tips of the wood.\u00a0 Incidentally, the first Geronimo movie (1952) also had Ga&#8217;an dancers in it.\u00a0 Aaron, 543 A: I normally post only one mask per person,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","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\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}