{"id":860,"date":"2013-09-16T18:08:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:00:53","slug":"famous-mask-in-a-strange-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/famous-mask-in-a-strange-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous mask in a strange size"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-861\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-549n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-861\" alt=\"Dan Racer\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-549n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-549n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-549n-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Racer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve been collecting masks for a few years and recently acquired an auction lot of W. African masks from a local small auction house that usually has junk, antique tools and farm equipment. I have details of them (and sketches) in a notebook with dates between 1950 &#8211; 1990.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m really fascinated by them and would like to get your opinion. This mask is tiny. The wooden face part is 5&#8243; tall.\u00a0 Adam, 549<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Nice Gunye ge mask from the Dan culture of Liberia or Ivory Coast. <!--more-->Also called a Racer Mask. Normally you don&#8217;t see them with all their accoutrements. Also, I&#8217;m surprised by the 5-inch size, though I have seen a few in 1 to 3-inches, which are sometimes called passport masks. I&#8217;m going to guess this was made for the tourists trade, but I haven&#8217;t seen the rest of the collection. I think you should consider getting them all appraised by a professional. Yes, that&#8217;s a hint. If you send me a group shot of all the masks I will reply with an estimate of cost.\u00a0 <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I&#8217;ve been collecting masks for a few years and recently acquired an auction lot of W. African masks from a local small auction house that usually has junk, antique tools and farm equipment. I have details of them (and sketches) in a notebook with dates between 1950 &#8211; 1990. I&#8217;m really fascinated by them and would like to get your opinion. This mask is tiny. The wooden face part is 5&#8243; tall.\u00a0 Adam, 549 A: Nice Gunye ge mask from the Dan culture of Liberia or Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","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\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}