{"id":8800,"date":"2020-03-10T14:45:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T14:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=8800"},"modified":"2020-03-11T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:10:51","slug":"guro-elephant-mask-from-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/guro-elephant-mask-from-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Guro elephant mask from West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ART-CARVED-ELEPHANT-HEAD-MASK-1AA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ART-CARVED-ELEPHANT-HEAD-MASK-1AA-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ART-CARVED-ELEPHANT-HEAD-MASK-1AA-178x300.jpg 178w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ART-CARVED-ELEPHANT-HEAD-MASK-1AA-768x1293.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ART-CARVED-ELEPHANT-HEAD-MASK-1AA-608x1024.jpg 608w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ART-CARVED-ELEPHANT-HEAD-MASK-1AA-600x1010.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ART-CARVED-ELEPHANT-HEAD-MASK-1AA.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a>I sometimes find nice pictures on the internet to share with my viewers. This beautifully carved Guro elephant mask represents the spirit of Gu, the wife of Zamble; a supernatural being. Gu is often depicted as an animal. The Guro revere five: the antelope, the hyena, the leopard, the crocodile and the elephant. These are animals mostly found in the Savannah and tropical forest where the 200,000-strong tribe lives. The Guro people are found in Ivory Coast; their art is closely related to those of their neighbors, the Baule\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t you share with our viewers some scans of a mask in your collection? Bob, 1670<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes find nice pictures on the internet to share with my viewers. This beautifully carved Guro elephant mask represents the spirit of Gu, the wife of Zamble; a supernatural being. Gu is often depicted as an animal. The Guro revere five: the antelope, the hyena, the leopard, the crocodile and the elephant. These are animals mostly found in the Savannah and tropical forest where the 200,000-strong tribe lives. The Guro people are found in Ivory Coast; their art is closely related to those of their neighbors, the Baule\u2019s. Why don&#8217;t you share with our viewers some scans of a mask in your collection? Bob, 1670<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8800","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\/8800","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=8800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8805,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions\/8805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}