{"id":9871,"date":"2020-10-26T23:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2020-10-26T23:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:19:58","slug":"african-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/african-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"African Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e7-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e7-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e7-712x1024.jpg 712w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e7-768x1105.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e7-1067x1536.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e7-600x863.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e7.jpg 1105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a>Q:  This is rather nice. Cannot quiet pinpoint the region. Alma, 1787<\/p>\n<p>A:  Probably northwest African. Hard to be sure, but it looks like a Dan mask, except really primitive. This makes sense, but damned if I can find anything in the reference books or internet that looks like this. Have any of you guys seen something like this? Any suggestion in the comment box will be appreciated.  <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e6-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e6-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e6-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e6-768x1029.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e6-600x804.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e6.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/f8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/f8-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/f8-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/f8-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/f8-768x1029.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/f8-600x804.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/f8.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: This is rather nice. Cannot quiet pinpoint the region. Alma, 1787 A: Probably northwest African. Hard to be sure, but it looks like a Dan mask, except really primitive. This makes sense, but damned if I can find anything in the reference books or internet that looks like this. Have any of you guys seen something like this? Any suggestion in the comment box will be appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9871","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\/9871","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=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9876,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions\/9876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}