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    "localId": "169189",
    "label": "Tunic",
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    "id": "169189",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Tunic",
    "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": "1100–1532",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.111.1",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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        "Textile"
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.111.1/2011.111.1_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 57.2 x 151.1 cm (22 1/2 x 59 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Peru, Chimú or Chimú-Inka, 12th-16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "2011.111.1"
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    "tec": "white cotton; plain weave with supplementary weft brocading",
    "tombstone": "Tunic, 1100–1532. Peru, Chimú or Chimú-Inka, 12th-16th century. White cotton; plain weave with supplementary weft brocading; overall: 57.2 x 151.1 cm (22 1/2 x 59 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2011.111.1",
    "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": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 338-339"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Permanent Collection Installations.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>63, no. 3 (2023): 12-13.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 12",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2023-03/page/12/mode/2up"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.111.1",
    "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:41:36.464000",
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    "sourceId": 169189,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Pre-Columbian",
    "med": "white cotton; plain weave with supplementary weft brocading",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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