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    "localId": "135880",
    "label": "Gift Bowl",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "135880",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Gift Bowl",
    "description": "Although this basket probably was not made for native use, the feathered basket is based on an older type that was exchanged among natives as a treasured gift on such occasions as ceremonies that marked the stages of life. The feathers and shell beads are symbols of prestige and wealth.",
    "date": "c. 1905",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.384",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80029545"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Basketry"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.384/1959.384_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.384/1959.384_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 3.5 x 17.5 cm (1 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "California, Pomo, Late 19th- Early 20th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1959.384"
}

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    "tec": "Sedge with mallard, meadowlark, and quail feathers, and shells; coiled (3 rods)",
    "tombstone": "Gift Bowl, c. 1905. California, Pomo, Late 19th- Early 20th century. Sedge with mallard, meadowlark, and quail feathers, and shells; coiled (3 rods); overall: 3.5 x 17.5 cm (1 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. J. E. Bauerschmidt, 1959.384",
    "collection": "AA - Native North America",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Crawford, Virginia. “Artistic Basketry of the North American Indian.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 7 (September 1986): 278–297.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 290-291, fig. 19",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159950"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.384",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. J. E. Bauerschmidt",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:56:34.676000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.384/1959.384_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 135880,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Native North America",
    "med": "Sedge with mallard, meadowlark, and quail feathers, and shells; coiled (3 rods)",
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    "image_url": null
}

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