{"id":8757,"date":"2020-02-23T16:56:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T16:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2020-02-25T19:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T19:42:36","slug":"woven-indian-mask-from-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/woven-indian-mask-from-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"Woven Indian mask from Panama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Q: Found this “mask” at a thrift shop for 99 cents. I think it’s a mask, but have no idea of origins, or what it was used for. It is small and is tightly woven and beautifully put together. Any ideas? Mickey, 1664<\/p>\n

A: Many of the photos sent to the Mask Man are of masks found in thrift shops. I usually don’t publish them because they are poorly made fakes. Yours is one of the few that deserves being in a good collection… providing it is large enough to be worn. (Small ones are for tourists only and therefore less desirable for collecting.) Either way, yours is a beautiful example of indigenous art and workmanship. I included the second photo because it is displayed on a nice little stand. Even if this one is the small version, it is still worth more than a hundred times what you paid. <\/p>\n

This is a toucan bird mask from the Wounaan-Embera Indians of the Darian rain forest between Panama and Columbia. It is hand woven from palm fronds using the coil methods, much like a basket. The dyes are natural, made from bark, leaves, roots and fruits. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: Found this “mask” at a thrift shop for 99 cents. I think it’s a mask, but have no idea of origins, or what it was used for. It is small and is tightly woven and beautifully put together. Any ideas? Mickey, 1664 A: Many of the photos sent to the Mask Man are of masks found in thrift shops. I usually don’t publish them because they are poorly made fakes. Yours is one of the few that deserves being in a good collection… providing it is large enough to be worn. (Small ones are for tourists only and therefore less desirable for collecting.) Either way, yours is a beautiful example of indigenous art and workmanship. I included the second photo because it is displayed on a nice little stand. Even if this one is the small version, it is still worth more than a hundred times what you paid. This is a toucan bird mask from the Wounaan-Embera Indians of the Darian rain forest between Panama and Columbia. It is hand woven from palm fronds using the coil methods, much like a basket. The dyes are natural, made from bark, leaves, roots and fruits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caribbean","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757","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=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8764,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions\/8764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}