{"id":901,"date":"2013-09-27T18:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T18:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2015-10-28T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:39:13","slug":"authentic-or-decorative-both-can-be-desireable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/authentic-or-decorative-both-can-be-desireable\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentic or decorative&#8211; both can be desireable"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-902\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-557n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-902\" alt=\"Mexican chicken\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-557n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-557n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-557n-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexican chicken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I got this big chicken in Mexico many years ago. Its 30 inches tall and 9 wide. Thanks for any info you might have.\u00a0 Jerry, 557<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Decorative masks are not only made for the tourist trade in Mexico, <!--more-->but the more extravagant pieces are popular with art collectors as well. At 30 inches your chicken certainly qualifies as art. There are also various animal masks that are made for village dances and are what serious mask collectors are looking for. I admire Mexican creativity so much that I personally collect both authentic dance masks <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> decoratives.\u00a0<strong> C+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I got this big chicken in Mexico many years ago. Its 30 inches tall and 9 wide. Thanks for any info you might have.\u00a0 Jerry, 557 A: Decorative masks are not only made for the tourist trade in Mexico,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","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=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}