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    "localId": "134178",
    "label": "Bird Pendant",
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    "id": "134178",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bird Pendant",
    "date": "c. 1000–1550",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.669",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.669/1956.669_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.669/1956.669_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 11.1 x 4.3 x 3.5 cm (4 3/8 x 1 11/16 x 1 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Panama, Veraguas-Chiriquí style, 11th - 16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1956.669"
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    "tec": "cast gold",
    "tombstone": "Bird Pendant, c. 1000–1550. Panama, Veraguas-Chiriquí style, 11th - 16th century. Cast gold; overall: 11.1 x 4.3 x 3.5 cm (4 3/8 x 1 11/16 x 1 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1956.669",
    "collection": "AA - Intermediate Region",
    "didYouKnow": "In the Panama-Costa Rica region, gold ornaments were associated with political and religious authority.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William M. \"Early Byzantine Silver.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 45, no. 3 (1958).",
            "page_number": "p. 91",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142265"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "The Norweb Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:52:09.031000",
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    "sourceId": 134178,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Intermediate Region",
    "med": "cast gold",
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