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{
    "localId": "127147",
    "label": "Ceremonial Mace (Club) Head: Feline (Jaguar?)",
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}

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    "id": "127147",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Ceremonial Mace (Club) Head: Feline (Jaguar?)",
    "description": "Probably once mounted on wooden shafts, these objects could have served as symbols of chiefly authority, group insignia, the heads of ceremonial weapons, or all three. They eventually were placed in elite graves. The bird may be a male curassow and the feline, a jaguar.",
    "date": "c. 300 BCE–600 CE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.469",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
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    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.469/1949.469_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.469/1949.469_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 8.8 x 7.7 x 10.6 cm (3 7/16 x 3 1/16 x 4 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region"
    ],
    "accession": "1949.469"
}

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    "tec": "stone",
    "tombstone": "Ceremonial Mace (Club) Head: Feline (Jaguar?), c. 300 BCE–600 CE. Costa Rica, Southern Nicoya region. Stone; overall: 8.8 x 7.7 x 10.6 cm (3 7/16 x 3 1/16 x 4 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Humphreys, gift of their daughter Helen, 1949.469",
    "collection": "AA - Intermediate Region",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William. \"Pre-Columbian Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>37, no. 1 (January 1950): 10-11, 14-16.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 10; Mentioned: p. 15",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141601"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 294",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n318"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 294",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n318"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 398"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 10",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n25"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.469",
    "creditline": "In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Humphreys, gift of their daughter Helen",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:33:22.009000",
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    "sourceId": 127147,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Intermediate Region",
    "med": "stone",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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