{"id":9953,"date":"2020-11-18T21:42:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T21:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=9953"},"modified":"2020-11-18T22:10:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T22:10:57","slug":"gourd-mask-from-east-timor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/gourd-mask-from-east-timor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gourd mask from East Timor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Q: I am unable to define the possible origin of this mask. Probably East Timor, Flores or the Malukus. Material is calabash, not coconut. Size 22 cm. It belonged to an old collection. Patrick, 1794<\/p>\n

A:\u00a0 Gourds can make excellent masks and are used by cultures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and all of the Americas.\u00a0 This old example is beautifully done and in excellent condition. Patrick seems to know where it might have come from. I agree with him on East Timor. The are a number of indigenous groups there who do masks with this kind of simple decoration. And there are calabash-type gourds growing in that part of the world.\u00a0 A\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: I am unable to define the possible origin of this mask. Probably East Timor, Flores or the Malukus. Material is calabash, not coconut. Size 22 cm. It belonged to an old collection. Patrick, 1794 A:\u00a0 Gourds can make excellent masks and are used by cultures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and all of the Americas.\u00a0 This old example is beautifully done and in excellent condition. Patrick seems to know where it might have come from. I agree with him on East Timor. The are a number of indigenous groups there who do masks with this kind of simple decoration. And there are calabash-type gourds growing in that part of the world.\u00a0 A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953","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=9953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9959,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions\/9959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}