{"id":8751,"date":"2020-02-21T15:41:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=8751"},"modified":"2020-02-21T17:47:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T17:47:21","slug":"old-european-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/old-european-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Old European mask?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/s-l1600-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/s-l1600-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/s-l1600-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/s-l1600-1-768x962.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/s-l1600-1-818x1024.jpg 818w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/s-l1600-1-600x751.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/s-l1600-1.jpg 1003w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Q:  I bought this mask as a &#8220;Perchtenmaske&#8221; on Ebay, but I think it\u00b4s not European. Its made of leather and the nose and the eyes are wooden. Maybe you can give me some information.  Peter, 1663<\/p>\n<p>A:  After studying your photos I think you might have an old, used artifact that could be worth a lot of money. It certainly looks authentic. But where is it really from?<\/p>\n<p>Perchten is an ancient pagan festival meant to drive out the devils of winter in early December with a Perchtenlauf or parade of these devil like creatures through the center of Austrian villages. Yours also might be a type I have seen from Switzerland that are called Roitschaeggaetae masks.  I tried to find more pictures of both on Google images and could not find a match.<\/p>\n<p>So the mask could come from someplace other than Europe. Maybe Asia or Latin America. I hope one of our viewers will recognize it and leave a comment.  <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hsdkfh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hsdkfh-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hsdkfh-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hsdkfh-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hsdkfh-1140x1520.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hsdkfh-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hsdkfh.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I bought this mask as a &#8220;Perchtenmaske&#8221; on Ebay, but I think it\u00b4s not European. Its made of leather and the nose and the eyes are wooden. Maybe you can give me some information. Peter, 1663 A: After studying your photos I think you might have an old, used artifact that could be worth a lot of money. It certainly looks authentic. But where is it really from? Perchten is an ancient pagan festival meant to drive out the devils of winter in early December with a Perchtenlauf or parade of these devil like creatures through the center of Austrian villages. Yours also might be a type I have seen from Switzerland that are called Roitschaeggaetae masks. I tried to find more pictures of both on Google images and could not find a match. So the mask could come from someplace other than Europe. Maybe Asia or Latin America. I hope one of our viewers will recognize it and leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751","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=8751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8756,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751\/revisions\/8756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}