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    "localId": "4155",
    "label": "Nose Ring with Four Rectangular Holes in Rim",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.292"
}

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    "id": "4155",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.292",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Nose Ring with Four Rectangular Holes in Rim",
    "description": "Gold nose rings were among the artifacts brought back to Spain by Columbus.  They were a popular form of body ornament and sign of rank for both men and women in ancient Central America.",
    "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]; Tiffany & Co. New York, 1910, by purchase [from \"\"Indians,\"\" see December 29, 1910 correspondance from Tiffany & Co. to Henry Walters]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "800-1521 (Pre-Columbian or Early Conquest)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.292",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "ornaments",
        "nose rings",
        "jewelry"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.6,
            "height": 2.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "5/8 x 1 1/16 in. (1.6 x 2.7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Chiriqui",
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        "4145"
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}

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