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    "localId": "294034",
    "label": "Textile Fragment with Cotton Goddess",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "294034",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Textile Fragment with Cotton Goddess",
    "description": "The figure painted on this fragment represents a female deity with a large, fanged mouth. Further fanged heads occur on the chest, legs, feet, waist, and staffs of authority she holds. Edging both the staffs and the top of the head are white cotton bolls that have caused the deity to be dubbed the Cotton Goddess and associated with nature’s fertility.",
    "date": "800–500 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.56",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79872333"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.56/2017.56_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.56/2017.56_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 34.3 x 36.2 cm (13 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.); Mounted: 39.1 x 41.3 cm (15 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Andes, south coast, Ica Valley?, Chavín style"
    ],
    "accession": "2017.56"
}

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    "tec": "Cotton, pigments",
    "tombstone": "Textile Fragment with Cotton Goddess, 800–500 BCE. Andes, south coast, Ica Valley?, Chavín style. Cotton, pigments; overall: 34.3 x 36.2 cm (13 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.); mounted: 39.1 x 41.3 cm (15 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2017.56",
    "collection": "T - Pre-Columbian",
    "didYouKnow": "The fragment comes from a larger textile, perhaps a ceremonial hanging.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Patricia Lyon, “Female Supernaturals in Ancient Peru,” <em>Nawpa Pacha</em>, vol. 16 (1978).",
            "page_number": "plate XXIX"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Junius B. Bird Pre-Columbian Textile Conference, Junius Bouton Bird, Ann Pollard Rowe, Elizabeth P. Benson, and Anne-Louise Schaffer. <em>The Junius B. Bird Pre-Columbian Textile Conference,</em> May 19th and 20th, 1973. 1979.",
            "page_number": "figs. 21 and 22"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cordy-Collins, Alana.<em> An Iconographic Study of Chavín Textiles from the South Coast of Peru: The Discovery of a Pre-Columbian Catechism. </em>Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms International, 1980.",
            "page_number": "p. 76"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Brinckerhoff, Deborah. <em>Weaving for the Gods: Textiles of the Ancient Andes : October 30, 1999 to March 19, 2000</em>. 1999.",
            "page_number": "Cat. No. 10"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Conklin, William J., and Jeffrey Quilter.<em> Chavín: Art, Architecture, and Culture</em>. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 2008.",
            "page_number": "p. xv"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.56",
    "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:52:17.493000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.56/2017.56_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 294034,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Pre-Columbian",
    "med": "Cotton, pigments",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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