{"id":8533,"date":"2019-11-15T16:25:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=8533"},"modified":"2019-11-15T16:37:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:37:06","slug":"bamana-ntomo-mask-from-mali-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/bamana-ntomo-mask-from-mali-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamana Ntomo mask from Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Q: I was given this mask as a gift from a friend with quite a bit of African masks. I’d like to know it’s value. I do not collect them but the giver does, and he has a large collection. Most were given to him from patients, mainly from Africa. I have more pictures if needed. Thank you. Michelle, 1635<\/p>\n

A: Instead of featuring your mask, I put it in second place. The big photo is from a blog I posted more than two years ago. This mask certainly looks like an authentic Ntomo, but it could be a carefully made reproduction. If the latter, it will still be a nice addition to most collector’s West African section. And you could find one for a few hundred dollars or less.<\/p>\n

The giver of your present got rid of a decorative reproduction that I would give a C. We all have to remember that selling wood carvings to tourists and exporters is a nice way to make a decent living in African. Sometimes masks are quickly made and don’t look like the real thing at all. But they almost always are antiqued to look old a used. Most of those get a D.<\/p>\n

May I suggest that Masks of the World<\/em> by Ibold & Yohn, with an African chapter that contains 130 photos and descriptions, is a great reference book for anyone wishing to start a collection. (Yes, we make some money that way.)\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: I was given this mask as a gift from a friend with quite a bit of African masks. I’d like to know it’s value. I do not collect them but the giver does, and he has a large collection. Most were given to him from patients, mainly from Africa. I have more pictures if needed. Thank you. Michelle, 1635 A: Instead of featuring your mask, I put it in second place. The big photo is from a blog I posted more than two years ago. This mask certainly looks like an authentic Ntomo, but it could be a carefully made reproduction. If the latter, it will still be a nice addition to most collector’s West African section. And you could find one for a few hundred dollars or less. The giver of your present got rid of a decorative reproduction that I would give a C. We all have to remember that selling wood carvings to tourists and exporters is a nice way to make a decent living in African. Sometimes masks are quickly made and don’t look like the real thing at all. But they almost always are antiqued to look old a used. Most of those get a D. May I suggest that Masks of the World by Ibold & Yohn, with an African chapter that contains 130 photos and descriptions, is a great reference book for anyone wishing to start a collection. (Yes, we make some money that way.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8533","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\/8533","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=8533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8538,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions\/8538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}