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    "localId": "146116",
    "label": "Heddle Pulley (Bo Nun Amuin mask)",
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    "id": "146116",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Heddle Pulley (Bo Nun Amuin mask)",
    "description": "The heddle pulley, a working element of a narrow-band loom, bears a miniature sculpture. Heddle pulleys support and separate threads during weaving. Mounted above the weaver, the pulleys allow him to glance up at an object of inspiring beauty, rather than pure functionality. This pulley depicts a face mask, a secular usage of a typically sacred mask type.",
    "date": "1900s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.300",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79924312"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Tools and Equipment"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.300/1971.300_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Africa, West Africa, Côte d’Ivoire, Baule-style carver"
    ],
    "accession": "1971.3"
}

{
    "tec": "Wood, metal, and plant fiber",
    "tombstone": "Heddle Pulley (Bo Nun Amuin mask), 1900s. Africa, West Africa, Côte d’Ivoire, Baule-style carver. Wood, metal, and plant fiber; overall: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1971.300",
    "collection": "African Art",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "743.68"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "This heddle pulley depicts a fearsome <em>Bo Nun Amuin </em>mask that recalls nature spirits.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Fagg, William Buller. <em>African Tribal Images:the Katherine White Reswick Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968, no. 88.",
            "page_number": "no. 88"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review 1972.” In <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>60, no. 3 (March 1973): 106, no. 27.",
            "page_number": "p. 106, no. 27"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.300",
    "creditline": "Gift of Katherine C. White",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:29:51.726000",
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    "sourceId": 146116,
    "dept": "African Art",
    "coll": "African Art",
    "med": "Wood, metal, and plant fiber",
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    "image_url": null
}

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