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    "localId": "30401",
    "label": "Bell Pendant of a Dog",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.307"
}

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    "id": "30401",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.307",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bell Pendant of a Dog",
    "description": "Bells played an important role in ritual activities, costume decoration, and burial offerings.  This bell has a slot in the bottom, and a figure of a dog on the top.  The loop for suspension is behind the dog's body.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "800-1521 (Pre-Early Conquest)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.307",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "pendants (jewelry)",
        "bells (idiophones)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_57.307_Gp_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_57.307_Gp_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.5,
            "height": 4,
            "depth": 4.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 3/16 × W: 1 9/16 × L: 1 7/8 in. (5.5 × 4 × 4.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Panamanian",
    "med": "gold alloy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15521"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "AME"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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