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    "localId": "160748",
    "label": "Female Seated Figure",
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    "id": "160748",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Female Seated Figure",
    "description": "This couple-extremely fine examples of their kind-may commemorate the marriage of an important person, such as a chief, but could also represent siblings of a chiefly family. Whatever their relationship, their unity is conveyed by their physical similarities, including their jewelry, which marks high social station. The female is unusual in nursing an infant, likely a reference to generational renewal and the continuation of noble bloodlines. The significance of the male’s activity-beating a turtle-shell drum- is not understood.",
    "date": "100 BCE–300 CE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.83.1",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60749024"
    ],
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        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.83.1/1998.83.1_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Average: 52.3 x 30.5 x 29.5 cm (20 9/16 x 12 x 11 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Mexico, Nayarit"
    ],
    "accession": "1998.83.1"
}

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    "tec": "ceramic",
    "tombstone": "Female Seated Figure, 100 BCE–300 CE. Mexico, Nayarit. Ceramic; average: 52.3 x 30.5 x 29.5 cm (20 9/16 x 12 x 11 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Clara Taplin Rankin, 1998.83.1",
    "collection": "AA - Mesoamerica",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Townsend, Richard F., and Patricia Rieff Anawalt. <em>Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past</em>. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998.",
            "page_number": "fig. 13, p. 43; cat no. 191"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Acquires Major New Sculpture, Rare Chinese Prints, Contemporary Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs,” October 30, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4215"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.83.1",
    "creditline": "Gift of Clara Taplin Rankin",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:21:19.688000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.83.1/1998.83.1_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 160748,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Mesoamerica",
    "med": "ceramic",
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    "image_url": null
}

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