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    "localId": "94940",
    "label": "Lamellophone (chisanji)",
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    "id": "94940",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Lamellophone (chisanji)",
    "description": "The thumb piano portrays a wonderfully animated man riding a curious quadruped. His hat suggests he is probably a trader (<em>pombeiro</em>) engaged in long-distance commerce.",
    "date": "late 1800s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.495",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Musical Instrument"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 19.1 x 10.2 x 6.4 cm (7 1/2 x 4 x 2 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo or Angola, Chokwe-style maker"
    ],
    "accession": "1915.495"
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    "tec": "Wood, iron, and wire",
    "tombstone": "Lamellophone (chisanji), late 1800s. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo or Angola, Chokwe-style maker. Wood, iron, and wire; overall: 19.1 x 10.2 x 6.4 cm (7 1/2 x 4 x 2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund, 1915.495",
    "collection": "African Art",
    "didYouKnow": "The CMA acquired this plucky instrument in 1915, one year before it opened to the public.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Wixom, WIlliam D. \"African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" In <em>African Arts</em>. 10, no. 3. (April 1977): 16-25.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 16; reproduced: p. 19",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/3335296"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bourgeois, Arthur P, et al. <em>Sounding Forms : African Musical Instruments</em>. Edited by Brincard Marie-Thérèse. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1989.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced:  p. 131, fig. 74."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Chanda, Jacqueline. <em>African Arts &amp; Cultures</em>. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 1993.",
            "page_number": "P. 75"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Jordán, Manuel, and Marie Louise Bastin. <em>Chokwe!: Art and Initiation Among the Chokwe and Related Peoples</em>. Munich: Prestel, 1998."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.",
            "page_number": "reproduced: fig. 2, p. 13"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Petridis, Constantine, \"African Art Revisited\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 43 no. 09, November 2003",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2003-09/page/n3"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Chemeche, George, and John Pemberton. <em>The Horse Rider in African Art</em>. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2011.",
            "page_number": "p. 106"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Berzock, Kathleen Bickford, and Christa Clarke. <em>Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display</em>. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced:  p. 105, fig. 5.1"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Petridis, Constantine. \"A World of Great Art for Everyone.\" In <em>Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and </em>Display, edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Christa Clarke, 104-121. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 104; reproduced: p. 105, fig. 5.1"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Roberts, Allen F., Tom Joyce, Marla Berns, William Joseph Dewey, Henry John Drewal, Candice Lee Goucher, and Rowland Abiodun. <em>Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths</em>. Los Angeles, California: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2019.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced:  p. 427, fig. 17.3; discussed: p. 430."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. <em>Second Careers : Two Tributaries in African Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 18, fig. 1; mentioned:  p. 19",
            "url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1090438741"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.495",
    "creditline": "The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund",
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    "updatedAt": "2026-06-18 21:16:23.644000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.495/1915.495_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 94940,
    "dept": "African Art",
    "coll": "African Art",
    "med": "Wood, iron, and wire",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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