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    "localId": "168369",
    "label": "Woman’s Mantle (Chyrpy)",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "168369",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Woman’s Mantle (Chyrpy)",
    "description": "Traditional costumes in central Asia have distinctive characteristics that indicate ethnicity, age, and class. One of the oldest examples is a woman’s coat with false sleeves attached on the back and worn over the head. This silk coat in yellow, the color worn by middle-aged women, is elaborately decorated with popular stylized tulips embroidered in chain stitch. Worn consistently by a newlywed, the coat was later only used on special occasions. Although women made and embroidered garments at home, this expensive luxury mantle was professionally made and sold in the marketplace.",
    "date": "late 1800s–early 1900s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.192",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Garment"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 119.4 x 75 cm (47 x 29 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Central Asia, Turkmenistan, Tekke tribe"
    ],
    "accession": "2010.192"
}

{
    "tec": "Exterior: silk; plain weave; embroidery: chain stitch; Trim: silk; tablet-woven with fringe; Lining: cotton; plain weave, block printed",
    "tombstone": "Woman’s Mantle (Chyrpy), late 1800s–early 1900s. Central Asia, Turkmenistan, Tekke tribe. Exterior: silk; plain weave; embroidery: chain stitch; Trim: silk; tablet-woven with fringe; Lining: cotton; plain weave, block printed; overall: 119.4 x 75 cm (47 x 29 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of E.B. and Joan C. Long, 2010.192",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Gluck, Jay, and Sumi Hiramoto Gluck. <em>A Survey of Persian Handicraft: A Pictorial Introduction to the Contemporary Folk Arts and Art Crafts of Modern Iran</em>. Tehran: Published under the auspices of the Bank Melli Iran [by] Survey of Persian Art, 1977.",
            "page_number": "p. 250"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gervers, V. “Construction of Türkmen Coats.” <em>Textile History</em> 14, no. 1 (1983).",
            "page_number": "pp. 3–27",
            "url": "https://doi.org/10.1179/004049683793690679"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Amstey, Marvin S., Frederica Amstey, and George W. O'Bannon. <em>Vanishing Jewels: Central Asian Tribal Weavings : a Catalog of an Exhibition by the Rochester Museum &amp; Science Center, September 14, 1990 to March 17, 1991 from the Collection of Marvin and Frederica Amstey</em>. Rochester, N.Y.: The Center, 1990.",
            "page_number": "p. 73"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Atanova, Snezhanna. “Rites of Passage.” <em>HALI; the international journal of Oriental carpets and textiles</em>. Issue 224, Summer 2025.",
            "page_number": "p. 96-101"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.192",
    "creditline": "Gift of E.B. and Joan C. Long",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:39:42.998000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.192/2010.192_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 168369,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "Exterior: silk; plain weave; embroidery: chain stitch; Trim: silk; tablet-woven with fringe; Lining: cotton; plain weave, block printed",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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