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<p>[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 159641, member: 45"]The big difference also, is whether the mask was actually danced, or used culturally, which is usually part of the provenance. </p><p><br /></p><p>Replicas of old masks can fool even the experts. Artificial aging is common, which makes accurate dating difficult. When labor is cheap, mask makers can afford to pay someone (usually a child, or otherwise unemployable adult) to spend literally years rubbing a mask to give it the patina indicative of actual use. I don't know of any experts who would attempt to authenticate a mask as old and culturally-used, without actual hands-on examination.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 159641, member: 45"]The big difference also, is whether the mask was actually danced, or used culturally, which is usually part of the provenance. Replicas of old masks can fool even the experts. Artificial aging is common, which makes accurate dating difficult. When labor is cheap, mask makers can afford to pay someone (usually a child, or otherwise unemployable adult) to spend literally years rubbing a mask to give it the patina indicative of actual use. I don't know of any experts who would attempt to authenticate a mask as old and culturally-used, without actual hands-on examination.[/QUOTE]
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