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{
    "localId": "123779",
    "label": "Ornament with Figure",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "123779",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Ornament with Figure",
    "description": "Affixed to a section of white shell is the image of a Wari dignitary, assembled of carefully carved mosaic elements. The purple and pink shapes are made of shell, while the green is serpentine. The spots on the figure's tunic are probably pyrite, which was originally smooth and reflective.",
    "date": "600–1000",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.291",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60757019"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Jewelry"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.291/1944.291_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.291/1944.291_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.291/1944.291_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 6.6 x 3.6 cm (2 5/8 x 1 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Central Andes, Wari style"
    ],
    "accession": "1944.291"
}

{
    "tec": "shell, stone, and metal (silver?)",
    "tombstone": "Ornament with Figure, 600–1000. Central Andes, Wari style. Shell, stone, and metal (silver?); overall: 6.6 x 3.6 cm (2 5/8 x 1 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Humphreys, gift of their daughter Helen, 1944.291",
    "collection": "AA - Andes",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen S. \"An Ornament from the Coast of Peru.\" Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, March 1945.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p.  31"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 353",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n67"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 297",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n321"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 297",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n321"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 401",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n421"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bergh, Susan E., Luis Guillermo Lumbreras, and Luis Jaime Castillo. <em>Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes.</em> [New York]: Thames &amp; Hudson; [Cleveland] : The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 271, cat. 74; Reproduced: p. 226, fig. 213"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bergh, Susan E. \"'The Art of Those Who Lived Here Before the White Man Came': Collecting the Ancient Americas at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" In <em>Collecting the “Other Americas”: Ancient Americas Collections in American Art Museums, </em>edited by Victoria I. Lyall, and Ellen Hoobler, 67- 82. Denver, Colorado: Mayer Center for Ancient and Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum, 2025.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 72, fig. 10"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.291",
    "creditline": "In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Humphreys, gift of their daughter Helen",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:22:39.951000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.291/1944.291_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 123779,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Andes",
    "med": "shell, stone, and metal (silver?)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.291/1944.291_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "c9f503034a7ba6b6"
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