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    "localId": "128159",
    "label": "Bat-Nosed Figures Pendant",
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    "id": "128159",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bat-Nosed Figures Pendant",
    "description": "Both pendants depict paired figures with tusklike noses. The \"tusks\" perhaps refer to the upswept nose of the leaf-nosed bat, an agile hunter whose \"leaf\" helps it to snatch prey from midair. The bat's success as a hunter is part of the reason that some identify such paired figures as warriors. They each hold a paddle-shaped object; the larger pair, in elaborate costumes, also clutches staffs.",
    "date": "1000–1550",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.153",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60749979"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.153/1951.153_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.153/1951.153_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.153/1951.153_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 4.2 x 8.1 x 1.6 cm (1 5/8 x 3 3/16 x 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Panama, Azuero Peninsula, Parita style, 11th-16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1951.153"
}

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    "tec": "cast gold",
    "tombstone": "Bat-Nosed Figures Pendant, 1000–1550. Panama, Azuero Peninsula, Parita style, 11th-16th century. Cast gold; overall: 4.2 x 8.1 x 1.6 cm (1 5/8 x 3 3/16 x 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Thirty-fifth anniversary gift of Mrs. Albert Ingalls, 1951.153",
    "collection": "AA - Intermediate Region",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” August 15, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr0028"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.153",
    "creditline": "Thirty-fifth anniversary gift of Mrs. Albert Ingalls",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:36:53.299000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.153/1951.153_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 128159,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Intermediate Region",
    "med": "cast gold",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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