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    "localId": "97900",
    "label": "Presentation Bowl",
    "core": "obj",
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}

{
    "id": "97900",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Presentation Bowl",
    "description": "This basket was made for the Euro-American collectors’ market in the early 1900s but it is modeled on basketry bowls from which the Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone once served food. When used indigenously, the main view would have been of the interior. Made-for-sale baskets testify to Indigenous women’s truly creative, resilient responses to forces that endangered their livelihoods and existence.",
    "date": "1900–1905",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.499",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79482720"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Basketry"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.499/1917.499_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.499/1917.499_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 20.7 x 44.6 cm (8 1/8 x 17 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Native North America, Great Basin, California, Death Valley, Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.499"
}

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    "tec": "Willow, devil's claw, yucca root; coiled ( 3 rods)",
    "tombstone": "Presentation Bowl, 1900–1905. Native North America, Great Basin, California, Death Valley, Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone. Willow, devil's claw, yucca root; coiled ( 3 rods); overall: 20.7 x 44.6 cm (8 1/8 x 17 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.499",
    "collection": "AA - Native North America",
    "didYouKnow": "This basket mingles 19th-century design features with 20th-century innovations, including the construction method.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 4 (1917): 64-67.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 65",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136092"
        },
        {
            "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. 406",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n426"
        },
        {
            "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. 294, fig. 25",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159950"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.499",
    "creditline": "Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-02 11:23:17.286000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.499/1917.499_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 97900,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Native North America",
    "med": "Willow, devil's claw, yucca root; coiled ( 3 rods)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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