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    "localId": "98657",
    "label": "Figurative harp (domu or kundi)",
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    "id": "98657",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Figurative harp (domu or kundi)",
    "description": "Musicians pluck the strings of this instrument with their fingers.",
    "date": "1900s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.356",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Musical Instrument"
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.356/1918.356_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.356/1918.356_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 63.6 cm (25 1/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mangbetu style, unknown maker"
    ],
    "accession": "1918.356"
}

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    "tec": "Wood, rawhide, and string",
    "tombstone": "Figurative harp (domu or kundi), 1900s. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mangbetu style, unknown maker. Wood, rawhide, and string; overall: 63.6 cm (25 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles G. King Jr. collection; Gift of Ralph King in memory of Charles G. King Jr., 1918.356",
    "collection": "African Art",
    "didYouKnow": "Musical instruments like this <em>domu</em> or <em>kundi</em> (figurative harp) were among the many decorated utilitarian Mangbetu rulers collected.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 5, no. 8/9 (1918): 82-85.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 82",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136230"
        },
        {
            "citation": "D. S. M. \"Exhibition of Musical Instruments.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 8, no. 9 (1921): 134-43.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 134-137",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136517"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.356",
    "creditline": "The Charles G. King Jr. collection; Gift of Ralph King in memory of Charles G. King Jr.",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:19:30.282000",
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    "dept": "African Art",
    "coll": "African Art",
    "med": "Wood, rawhide, and string",
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