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    "localId": "164420",
    "label": "Mantle or Hanging",
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    "id": "164420",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Mantle or Hanging",
    "description": "This garment embodies an important principle of the Chimú textile aesthetic: a love of combining different textures, some dense and sculptural and others so open and airy they are nearly invisible. (The hand-spun yarns are only .1 to .2 millimeters in diameter.) It also elegantly articulates the simplified, spare visual vocabulary that the Chimú favored, here geometric motifs.",
    "date": "1480–1635 (radiocarbon date, 95.4% probability)",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.5.1",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79991989"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 162.5 x 272 cm (64 x 107 1/16 in.); Mounted: 177.8 x 287 cm (70 x 113 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Peru, North Coast, Chimú style, 1200-1460s"
    ],
    "accession": "2005.5.1"
}

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    "tec": "cotton; plain weave, brocaded and complex alternating gauze with 3 or 5 shots of plain weave between gauze shots",
    "tombstone": "Mantle or Hanging, 1480–1635 (radiocarbon date, 95.4% probability). Peru, North Coast, Chimú style, 1200-1460s. Cotton; plain weave, brocaded and complex alternating gauze with 3 or 5 shots of plain weave between gauze shots; overall: 162.5 x 272 cm (64 x 107 1/16 in.); mounted: 177.8 x 287 cm (70 x 113 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 2005.5.1",
    "collection": "T - Pre-Columbian",
    "didYouKnow": "The Chimú forged an empire that thrived until the 1460s, when the Inka incorporated it into their own imperial domain.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Rowe, Ann Pollard, and John P. O'Neill. Costumes & featherwork of the Lords of Chimor: textiles from Peru's north coast. 1984."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.5.1",
    "creditline": "Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:31:33.835000",
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    "sourceId": 164420,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Pre-Columbian",
    "med": "cotton; plain weave, brocaded and complex alternating gauze with 3 or 5 shots of plain weave between gauze shots",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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