{"id":9027,"date":"2020-05-12T14:36:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=9027"},"modified":"2020-05-12T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:42:00","slug":"bearded-white-man-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/bearded-white-man-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearded white man mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AAAAAA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AAAAAA-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AAAAAA-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AAAAAA-768x1255.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AAAAAA-627x1024.jpg 627w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AAAAAA-1140x1863.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AAAAAA-600x980.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AAAAAA.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a>Q:  I AM VERY INTRIGUED WITH THIS MASK, ESTRUSC?, AFRICAN MASK REPRESENTED A WHITE MAN, LONG NOSE. We bought it at an art estate sale. Paintings were what we were looking for, a storage with good paintings and inside we found this mask as well. The former owner was a famous Cuban artist but not a mask collector. Maybe some present from friend or something to keep as decorative art. About price, I can&#8217;t say.  Juan, 1699<\/p>\n<p>A:  I think it is probably from someplace in Mexico or Guatemala. Your idea that it might be an African tribal mask portraying a white man is also worth considering. Appearance of the back suggests that it was made to be used in culture rather than sold to tourists. I&#8217;m intrigued as well as you are.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DDDDDD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DDDDDD-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DDDDDD-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DDDDDD-768x1210.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DDDDDD-650x1024.jpg 650w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DDDDDD-600x946.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/DDDDDD.jpg 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/000000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/000000-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/000000-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/000000-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/000000-600x897.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/000000.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I AM VERY INTRIGUED WITH THIS MASK, ESTRUSC?, AFRICAN MASK REPRESENTED A WHITE MAN, LONG NOSE. We bought it at an art estate sale. Paintings were what we were looking for, a storage with good paintings and inside we found this mask as well. The former owner was a famous Cuban artist but not a mask collector. Maybe some present from friend or something to keep as decorative art. About price, I can&#8217;t say. Juan, 1699 A: I think it is probably from someplace in Mexico or Guatemala. Your idea that it might be an African tribal mask portraying a white man is also worth considering. Appearance of the back suggests that it was made to be used in culture rather than sold to tourists. I&#8217;m intrigued as well as you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9027","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\/9027","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=9027"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9034,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions\/9034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}