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    "localId": "168421",
    "label": "Snuff Container",
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    "id": "168421",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Snuff Container",
    "description": "The shape and material of gourd snuff containers—like a woman’s womb, the gourd contains and nurtures the seed—suggest they were made for female users and allude to procreation and fecundity.",
    "date": "1800s–1900s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.200",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.200/2010.200_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.200/2010.200_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe or Mozambique, Northern Nguni-style or Shona-style maker"
    ],
    "accession": "2010.2"
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    "tec": "Gourd and copper alloy",
    "tombstone": "Snuff Container, 1800s–1900s. Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe or Mozambique, Northern Nguni-style or Shona-style maker. Gourd and copper alloy; overall: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2010.200",
    "collection": "African Art",
    "didYouKnow": "The snuff and tobacco held in this container were believed to enable communication between humans and ancestors.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Klopper, Sandra. The Zulu Kingdom. New York: Rosen Publishing Group and Franklin Watts Library Edition (First Books on African Civilizations), 1998, cover; Ginzberg, Marc. African Forms, exh. cat., Museum for African Art, New York. Milan: Skira, 2000, p. 120; Sotheby's. \"Collection Marc et Denyse Ginzberg.\" Paris, Sept. 10, 2007, lot 96"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.200",
    "creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:39:42.883000",
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    "sourceId": 168421,
    "dept": "African Art",
    "coll": "African Art",
    "med": "Gourd and copper alloy",
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