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    "localId": "302272",
    "label": "Sleeved Tunic",
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    "id": "302272",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Sleeved Tunic",
    "description": "The Chancay (<strong><em>chan</em></strong><em>-kai</em>) people of Peru’s central coast created one of the ancient Andes’s best-known textile legacies through artistically elaborate men’s tunics and loin cloths, women’s dresses and headcloths, and shawl-like mantles. Two traits indicate that this tunic is a high-prestige garment: its labor-intensive tapestry-woven technique and its substantial use of alpaca fiber imported from the adjacent highlands.",
    "date": "1460s–1532",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.193",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.193/2017.193_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "length back of neck to hem: 40.6 cm (16 in.); width across shoulders: 128.9 cm (50 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Central Andes, central coast, Chancay people"
    ],
    "accession": "2017.193"
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    "tec": "Cotton, camelid fiber",
    "tombstone": "Sleeved Tunic, 1460s–1532. Central Andes, central coast, Chancay people. Cotton, camelid fiber; length back of neck to hem: 40.6 cm (16 in.); width across shoulders: 128.9 cm (50 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2017.193",
    "collection": "T - Pre-Columbian",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Bergh, Susan E. “Acquisition Highlights: Pre-Columbian Art.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>58, no. 2 (March/April 2018): 8-9.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 9",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2018-02/page/n3/mode/2up"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.193",
    "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:53:57.603000",
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    "sourceId": 302272,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Pre-Columbian",
    "med": "Cotton, camelid fiber",
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    "image_url": null
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