{"id":932,"date":"2013-10-01T13:38:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=932"},"modified":"2015-10-26T21:02:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T21:02:05","slug":"unique-mask-from-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/unique-mask-from-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique mask from Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-933\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-562n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-933\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-562n\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-562n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-562n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-562n-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tibet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I bought this from a guy who called it an \u201cAfrican\u201d mask.\u00a0 It\u2019s a cloth hooded mask that fits over the head (you can see part of the red hood through the eye holes).\u00a0 It\u2019s got a distinctively Asian feel.\u00a0 The cowrie shells on the face (and one hanging from a felt nose) are throwing me off a little.\u00a0 Something about this mask looks vaguely familiar, but I can\u2019t decide where I\u2019ve seen anything like it.\u00a0 Nothing similar is in any of my books.\u00a0 I kind of feel like it might be some ethnic minority Chinese wedding mask or something, but it\u2019s pure speculation.\u00a0 Do you have any idea?\u00a0 Aaron, 562<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> You&#8217;re on the right track. Rora-Reema is the ritual dance of the hunters performed before Tibetan operas. <!--more-->These characters are called moqua or hunters, who represent the Diju Washafani. At the end of the dance everyone tosses handfuls of seeds into the air to appease the gods and pray for the peace and prosperity of all. Sometimes called a Lhamo, Ngompa, or wedding mask. The mask appears to be flat but stretches out around the head easily. It is made of colored fabrics, embroidery, silk tassels, shells and yak hair with stiff backing and attached hood&#8211; a much different design than other masks from that culture. <strong>A-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I bought this from a guy who called it an \u201cAfrican\u201d mask.\u00a0 It\u2019s a cloth hooded mask that fits over the head (you can see part of the red hood through the eye holes).\u00a0 It\u2019s got a distinctively Asian feel.\u00a0 The cowrie shells on the face (and one hanging from a felt nose) are throwing me off a little.\u00a0 Something about this mask looks vaguely familiar, but I can\u2019t decide where I\u2019ve seen anything like it.\u00a0 Nothing similar is in any of my books.\u00a0 I kind of feel like it might be some ethnic minority Chinese wedding mask or something, but it\u2019s pure speculation.\u00a0 Do you have any idea?\u00a0 Aaron, 562 A: You&#8217;re on the right track. Rora-Reema is the ritual dance of the hunters performed before Tibetan operas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-himalayas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}