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    "localId": "123039",
    "label": "Bird Pendant",
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    "id": "123039",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bird Pendant",
    "description": "The kinds of birds represented in pendants of the isthmus are not clear, though the emphasis on spread wings and flight suggests birds that soar, such as eagles or hawks. In addition to their aerial agility, they are powerful birds of prey and, therefore, may have symbolized a warrior's or hunter's ferocity and skill. They were also often linked to the sun. Better understanding is difficult because the makers created no written records.",
    "date": "c. 1000–1550",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.289",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60779225"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.289/1943.289_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.289/1943.289_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.289/1943.289_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 5.6 x 6.5 x 2 cm (2 3/16 x 2 9/16 x 13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Panama, Veraguas-Chiriquí style, 10th-16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1943.289"
}

{
    "tec": "cast gold",
    "tombstone": "Bird Pendant, c. 1000–1550. Panama, Veraguas-Chiriquí style, 10th-16th century. Cast gold; overall: 5.6 x 6.5 x 2 cm (2 3/16 x 2 9/16 x 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1943.289",
    "collection": "AA - Intermediate Region",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Mitchell, Jan, and Julie Jones. The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1985.",
            "page_number": "110-111"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Americas. [A Special Exhibition Held in the Museum from Nov. 8, 1945 Through Jan. 6, 1946. 1946.",
            "page_number": "p. 50"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen. \"Pre-Columbian Pendants from Panama.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>30, no. 10 (December 1943): 149-152.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 146; Mentioned: p. 151",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141093"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.289",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:19:57.848000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.289/1943.289_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 123039,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Intermediate Region",
    "med": "cast gold",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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