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    "localId": "97773",
    "label": "Gift Bowl",
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    "id": "97773",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Gift Bowl",
    "description": "To allow spirits to circulate freely in a basket, some California weavers provide a spirit door: an intentional design irregularity that can be as subtle as a tiny break in a stitch or as obvious as a feather or a bead of a different color. The single green bead in this superb gift basket may be such a portal.",
    "date": "c. 1895",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.403",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
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        "Basketry"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.403/1917.403_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 6 x 13 cm (2 3/8 x 5 1/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "California, Wappo, late 19th- early 20th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.403"
}

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    "tec": "willow, sedge, with beads; coiled (1 rod)",
    "tombstone": "Gift Bowl, c. 1895. California, Wappo, late 19th- early 20th century. Willow, sedge, with beads; coiled (1 rod); overall: 6 x 13 cm (2 3/8 x 5 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.403",
    "collection": "AA - Native North America",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 4 (1917): 64-67.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 65",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136092"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.403",
    "creditline": "Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:16:18.164000",
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    "sourceId": 97773,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Native North America",
    "med": "willow, sedge, with beads; coiled (1 rod)",
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}

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