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    "localId": "117283",
    "label": "Storage Bag",
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    "id": "117283",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Storage Bag",
    "description": "Rectangular bags made of soft hide—known among early white traders as “possible bags” because they could hold “anything possible”—were used to store personal items inside the tipi, where they doubled as pillows. When encampments moved, the bags were carried on the side of a saddle, where their decoration could be admired.",
    "date": "late 1800s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.850",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Leather"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.850/1937.850_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.850/1937.850_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Native North America, Plains, Lakota (Sioux)"
    ],
    "accession": "1937.85"
}

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    "tec": "Native-tanned hide, glass beads, dyed horsehair, tin cones, sinew thread",
    "tombstone": "Storage Bag, late 1800s. Native North America, Plains, Lakota (Sioux). Native-tanned hide, glass beads, dyed horsehair, tin cones, sinew thread; overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White, 1937.850",
    "collection": "T - Native North American",
    "didYouKnow": "Bags like this were used to store personal items inside the tipi, where they doubled as pillows.",
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.850",
    "creditline": "Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:05:20.787000",
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    "sourceId": 117283,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Native North American",
    "med": "Native-tanned hide, glass beads, dyed horsehair, tin cones, sinew thread",
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}

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