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    "localId": "168479",
    "label": "Necklace (amazipho)",
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{
    "id": "168479",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Necklace (amazipho)",
    "description": "When wild game was still plentiful in the region, real animal claws would have been used to punctuate beaded prestige necklaces. Lion-claw necklaces were the exclusive property of royalty while the bone imitations were owned and worn by high-ranking individuals of lesser status. Large red glass beads were also reserved for the Nguni elite in the period before the destruction of the Zulu kingdom in 1879.",
    "date": "1800s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.231",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60779632"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Jewelry"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.231/2010.231_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.231/2010.231_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 38.1 cm (15 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa, Southeast Cape Region, Northern Nguni (Zulu)-style maker"
    ],
    "accession": "2010.231"
}

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    "tec": "Glass beads, bone, and sinew",
    "tombstone": "Necklace (amazipho), 1800s. Africa, Southern Africa, South Africa, Southeast Cape Region, Northern Nguni (Zulu)-style maker. Glass beads, bone, and sinew; overall: 38.1 cm (15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dori and Daniel Rootenberg in memory of Estelle Rosenberg, 2010.231",
    "collection": "African Art",
    "didYouKnow": "Large red glass beads like the ones in this necklace were reserved for the Nguni elite.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Christie's. \"Arts d'Afrique. Collection de Madame Van den Abbeele,\" Paris, June 12, 2003, lot 121; Pemberton, John, III. African Beaded Art: Power and Adornment, exh. cat. Northampton, Massachusetts: Smith College Museum of Art, 2008, vii (detail) and cat. 127."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.231",
    "creditline": "Gift of Dori and Daniel Rootenberg in memory of Estelle Rosenberg",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:39:53.729000",
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    "sourceId": 168479,
    "dept": "African Art",
    "coll": "African Art",
    "med": "Glass beads, bone, and sinew",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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