{"id":8384,"date":"2019-09-17T16:02:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=8384"},"modified":"2019-09-17T16:02:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:02:04","slug":"contemporary-mask-from-africas-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/contemporary-mask-from-africas-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary mask from Africa&#8217;s DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1613.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1613-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1613-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1613-768x1114.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1613-706x1024.jpg 706w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1613-600x870.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-1613.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>Q:  This is a very recent purchase.  It looks old, but of course we can&#8217;t tell anything  for sure, however it looks very different to me. The tattered white cloth over the back is 12&#8243; long, the red cloth is 24&#8243; long.  I paid $75 dollars for it.   Deb, 1613<\/p>\n<p>A:  As a collector who does not specialize in African masks, I will foolishly guess this is a recently made (and possibly used) artifact from the Mbala people of north-western Democratic Republic of Congo. But I hope we get some help from one of our regular visitors who knows more about African masks than I do. Let&#8217;s watch for a comment.  A or B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: This is a very recent purchase. It looks old, but of course we can&#8217;t tell anything for sure, however it looks very different to me. The tattered white cloth over the back is 12&#8243; long, the red cloth is 24&#8243; long. I paid $75 dollars for it. Deb, 1613 A: As a collector who does not specialize in African masks, I will foolishly guess this is a recently made (and possibly used) artifact from the Mbala people of north-western Democratic Republic of Congo. But I hope we get some help from one of our regular visitors who knows more about African masks than I do. Let&#8217;s watch for a comment. A or B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8384","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\/8384","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=8384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8386,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions\/8386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}