{"id":9400,"date":"2020-07-21T15:37:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T15:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=9400"},"modified":"2020-07-21T15:40:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T15:40:24","slug":"pre-columbian-indian-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/pre-columbian-indian-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Columbian Indian mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan2-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan2-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan2-768x1027.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan2-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan2-600x802.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Q: Does this mask look like a repro or a legitimate<br \/>\nMexican pre-Columbian piece. It is 3\u201d x 5\u201d. Is is jade<br \/>\nadhered to pottery on a wooden base.  Paula, 1739<\/p>\n<p>A:  It&#8217;s a beautiful piece that shows you what an Mezcala, Olmec or Mayan masks could look like before the Spanish invaded the new world. Otherwise, I can&#8217;t help much because I never got around to learning about early MesoAmerican masks. The big question is whether it is authentic or a recent reproduction. Please don&#8217;t sell it until you know for sure. There are labs that can tell you the age of the mask. <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan-248x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan-768x928.png 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan-847x1024.png 847w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan-600x725.png 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mayan.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Does this mask look like a repro or a legitimate Mexican pre-Columbian piece. It is 3\u201d x 5\u201d. Is is jade adhered to pottery on a wooden base. Paula, 1739 A: It&#8217;s a beautiful piece that shows you what an Mezcala, Olmec or Mayan masks could look like before the Spanish invaded the new world. Otherwise, I can&#8217;t help much because I never got around to learning about early MesoAmerican masks. The big question is whether it is authentic or a recent reproduction. Please don&#8217;t sell it until you know for sure. There are labs that can tell you the age of the mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guatemala","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400","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=9400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9403,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions\/9403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}