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    "localId": "128454",
    "label": "Half Tunic",
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}

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    "id": "128454",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Half Tunic",
    "description": "The \"t'oqapu\" waistband and the deep V-yoke were standard decorations of Inca tunics. However, the fantastic animals represented in the yoke and the floral motifs in the main field identify this tunic as dating after the Spanish Conquest in 1532.",
    "date": "16th century",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.393",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60747794"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.393/1951.393_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.393/1951.393_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.393/1951.393_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 92.7 x 72.1 cm (36 1/2 x 28 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Peru, South Coast, Inca Culture, Colonial Period, 16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1951.393"
}

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    "tec": "interlocked tapestry; cotton and wool",
    "tombstone": "Half Tunic, 16th century. Peru, South Coast, Inca Culture, Colonial Period, 16th century. Interlocked tapestry; cotton and wool; overall: 92.7 x 72.1 cm (36 1/2 x 28 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1951.393",
    "collection": "T - Pre-Columbian",
    "didYouKnow": "In Inca times, only the ruler and select nobles had the privilege of wearing <em>t'oqapu</em> tunics.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy. \"An Inca Poncho.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>42, no. 3 (March 1955): 48-50.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 48; Reproduced: p. 49",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142025"
        },
        {
            "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. 350",
            "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. 299",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n323"
        },
        {
            "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. 299",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n323"
        },
        {
            "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. 403",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n423"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Pillsbury, Joanne. “Inka Unku: Strategy and Design in Colonial Peru.” <em>Cleveland Studies in the History of Art</em> 7 (2002): 68–103.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 87-88, fig. 22",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079720"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 340"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sidore, Micala, and Charissa Bremer-David.<em> The Art Is the Cloth: How to Look at and Understand Tapestries.</em> Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2020.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 165"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Pillsbury, Joanne. “El Uncu Inca: Tradición y Transformación.”  <em>Arte Imperial Inca: Sus Orígenes y Transformaciones desde la Conquista a la Independencia, </em>Lima, Perú: Banco de Crédito del Perú (2020).",
            "page_number": "p. 126"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wadsworth Atheneum, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin, and Charles Crehore Cunningham. 2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving: A Loan Exhibition : Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Dec. 7, 1951 to Jan. 27, 1952 ; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Feb. 27, 1952 to Mar. 25, 1952. Hartford, Conn: Wardsworth Atheneum], 1951.",
            "page_number": "p. 60"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hamilton, Andrew James, and Dumbarton Oaks Museum. <em>The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece</em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 263, fig. 6.17"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.393",
    "creditline": "The Norweb Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:37:46.054000",
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    "sourceId": 128454,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Pre-Columbian",
    "med": "interlocked tapestry; cotton and wool",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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