{"id":857,"date":"2013-09-15T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2015-10-27T20:30:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T20:30:16","slug":"art-from-the-amazon-jungles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/art-from-the-amazon-jungles\/","title":{"rendered":"Art from the Amazon jungles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-858\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-548n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-858\" alt=\"Amazon Indian\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-548n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-548n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-548n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon Indian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I visited the Canaima area of Venezuela in March 1991 and not far from the airstrip I bought the attached mask in a small village. I was told it was a monkey spirit mask and was used for a &#8216;wedding type ceremony&#8217; by the Pemon Indians. This was one of two masks (the other being a real monkey skull) made of reed covered in a plaster, straw hair and real monkey teeth.The mask looked used when purchased.\u00a0 Paul, 458<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> That is a handsome piece, and a bit different from the similarly constructed masks of the nearby Piaroa-Huarime people. <!--more-->Your Pemon mask&#8217;s well-sculpted monkey head is more realistic than anything I&#8217;ve seen from that part of the Venezuelan jungle. I would think anyone collecting the material culture of Amazon Indians would be very interested in this fine mask. Take a look at the animal spirit mask of the Piaroa-Huarime people on the So American section of MasksoftheWorld.\u00a0 <strong> A<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I visited the Canaima area of Venezuela in March 1991 and not far from the airstrip I bought the attached mask in a small village. I was told it was a monkey spirit mask and was used for a &#8216;wedding type ceremony&#8217; by the Pemon Indians. This was one of two masks (the other being a real monkey skull) made of reed covered in a plaster, straw hair and real monkey teeth.The mask looked used when purchased.\u00a0 Paul, 458 A: That is a handsome piece, and a bit different from the similarly constructed masks of the nearby Piaroa-Huarime people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","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\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}