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    "localId": "95500",
    "label": "Wedding Veil",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "95500",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Wedding Veil",
    "description": "Brides traditionally concealed their faces during their weddings and afterward as newly married women and on special occasions. This elaborate type, which includes a cotton netting rectangle that permitted vision, was only worn by Tajik Turkmen. The decoration features motifs that can be interpreted as birds or palmette leaves in a style that characterizes early Islamic art and that may have originated in Iran.",
    "date": "1800s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1235",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79477071"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textile"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1235/1916.1235_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1235/1916.1235_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1235/1916.1235_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Average: 76.2 x 75.6 cm (30 x 29 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Tajikistan, Tajik tribe, 19th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1916.1235"
}

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    "tec": "silk, cotton, embroidery",
    "tombstone": "Wedding Veil, 1800s. Tajikistan, Tajik tribe, 19th century. Silk, cotton, embroidery; average: 76.2 x 75.6 cm (30 x 29 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade, 1916.1235",
    "collection": "T - Islamic",
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1235",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:07:24.830000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1235/1916.1235_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 95500,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "T - Islamic",
    "med": "silk, cotton, embroidery",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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