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    "localId": "97628",
    "label": "Cigarette or Needle Case",
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    "id": "97628",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Cigarette or Needle Case",
    "date": "c 1875– 1917 (source unknown)",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.273",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Basketry"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 2 x 11.5 cm (13/16 x 4 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Arctic, Aleut, Attu, Post-Contact"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.273"
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    "tec": "plain twine, wild rye grass with crossed openwork, patterned twined start, intersecting layered spokes, and plaited finish; silk embroidery (catalogue card)",
    "tombstone": "Cigarette or Needle Case, c 1875– 1917 (source unknown). Arctic, Aleut, Attu, Post-Contact. Plain twine, wild rye grass with crossed openwork, patterned twined start, intersecting layered spokes, and plaited finish; silk embroidery (catalogue card); overall: 2 x 11.5 cm (13/16 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of W. A. Price, 1917.273",
    "collection": "AA - Native North America",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Crawford, Virginia. “Artistic Basketry of the North American Indian.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 7 (September 1986): 278–297.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 283, fig. 8",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159950"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of W. A. Price",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:15:40.348000",
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