{"id":1938,"date":"2017-05-05T19:25:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T00:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2017-07-01T08:47:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T13:47:57","slug":"african-congo-kuba-mukenga-mask-meaningful-materials-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/african-congo-kuba-mukenga-mask-meaningful-materials-77\/","title":{"rendered":"African Congo Kuba Mukenga Mask &#8211; Meaningful Materials (77)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"African Congo Kuba Mukenga Mask - Meaningful Materials (77)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZpIr53OAsvI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1939\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1939\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/african-congo-kuba-mukenga-mask-meaningful-materials-77\/ep77-mukenga-mask-1982-1504\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1939\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/african-congo-kuba-mukenga-mask-meaningful-materials-77\/ep77-mukenga-mask-1982-1504\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ep77-mukenga-mask-1982.1504.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,646\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mukenga Mask (AIC 1982.1504)\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Mask (Mukenga)&lt;br \/&gt;\nKuba, Western Kasai region, Democratic Republic of the Congo&lt;br \/&gt;\nLate 19th\/mid-20th century&lt;br \/&gt;\nWood, glass beads, cowrie shells, feathers, raffia, fur, fabric, thread, and bells&lt;br \/&gt;\nArt Institute of Chicago, 1982.1504&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Mask (Mukenga), Kuba, Western Kasai region, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.1504&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ep77-mukenga-mask-1982.1504-300x242.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ep77-mukenga-mask-1982.1504.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1939\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ep77-mukenga-mask-1982.1504-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"Mask (Mukenga), Kuba, Western Kasai region, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.1504\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ep77-mukenga-mask-1982.1504-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ep77-mukenga-mask-1982.1504-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ep77-mukenga-mask-1982.1504.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/aic\/collections\/artwork\/99539\">Mask (Mukenga), Kuba, Western Kasai region, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Art Institute of Chicago<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--[audio src=\"http:\/\/ancientartpodcast.org\/media\/77-mukenga-mask---meaningful-materials.mp3\"]\n\n--><\/p>\n<p>How do artists&#8217; choices of materials assign identity and meaning to works of art? How does meaning assign material? In this excerpt from one of my museum tours, I explore the meaningful materials in an African Congolese ceremonial mask of the Kuba Kingdom. This recording comes complete with all the juicy, unscripted, live-action museum gallery accents including background chatter and beeping proximity alarms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[515],"tags":[36,519,520,518,517,516],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ep77-mukenga-mask-1982.1504.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7RFIB-vg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}