{"id":8625,"date":"2019-12-08T17:28:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T17:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=8625"},"modified":"2019-12-08T17:28:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T17:28:15","slug":"batshioko-mask-from-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/batshioko-mask-from-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Batshioko mask from Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unnamed-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unnamed-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unnamed-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unnamed-1-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unnamed-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Q:  My mother was an artist who created masks in some of her work. She had some interesting masks which she collected for design inspiration. This one is the most unusual. I&#8217;d be interested to know where it is from.  Linda, 1648<\/p>\n<p>A:  We don&#8217;t see these very often. I&#8217;m going to assume it&#8217;s bark cloth stretched over a frame of bent twigs about 15 inches in height. Probably authentic and about 50 years old. B<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6969.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6969-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6969-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6969-600x742.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6969.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6967.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6967-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6967-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6967-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_6967.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: My mother was an artist who created masks in some of her work. She had some interesting masks which she collected for design inspiration. This one is the most unusual. I&#8217;d be interested to know where it is from. Linda, 1648 A: We don&#8217;t see these very often. I&#8217;m going to assume it&#8217;s bark cloth stretched over a frame of bent twigs about 15 inches in height. Probably authentic and about 50 years old. B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8625","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\/8625","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=8625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8629,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions\/8629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}