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{
    "localId": "14606",
    "label": "Bell Pendant",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.295"
}

{
    "id": "14606",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.295",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bell Pendant",
    "description": "Bells played an important role in ritual activities, costume decoration, and burial offerings. This oval bell has an opening at the bottom and a loop attached at the top.",
    "provenance": "[Found at a graveyard between Divalá (a village on the outskirts of settled Panama, thirty miles west of David in the province of Chiriqui) and Costa Rica, Spring 1909]; purchased [1] by Tiffany & Co. New York, 1910; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] from \"\"Indians,\"\" see December 29, 1910 correspondance from Tiffany & Co. to Henry Walters",
    "date": "800-1521 (Pre-Early Conquest)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.295",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "pendants (jewelry)",
        "bells (idiophones)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.295_Fnt_DD_T15.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.295_Fnt_DD_T15.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.295_Fnt_DD_T15.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2,
            "height": 1.3,
            "depth": 1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: H: 13/16 × W: 1/2 × D: 3/8 in. (2 × 1.3 × 1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Veraguas-Gran Chiriquí",
    "med": "gold alloy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15521"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "AME"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3381"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_57.295_Side_DD_T15.jpg",
    "mediaId": "0211dc501aa6e678"
}