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    "localId": "97877",
    "label": "Presentation Bowl",
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}

{
    "id": "97877",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Presentation Bowl",
    "description": "This basket was made for the Euro-American collectors’ market in the early 1900s but it is modeled on basketry bowls from which the Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone once served food. When used indigenously, the main view would have been of the interior. The two small, pink crosses, made of flicker (woodpecker) quills, may be a maker’s mark. Made-for-sale baskets testify to Indigenous women’s truly creative, resilient responses to forces that endangered their livelihoods and existence.",
    "date": "1880–90",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.482",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79482689"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Basketry"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.482/1917.482_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.482/1917.482_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.482/1917.482_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 21.5 x 48 cm (8 7/16 x 18 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Native North America, Great Basin, California, Death Valley, Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.482"
}

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    "tec": "devil's claw, sumac, yucca root, orange-shafted flicker (woodpecker) quills; coiled (2 rod and bundle of deer grass or basket grass)",
    "tombstone": "Presentation Bowl, 1880–90. Native North America, Great Basin, California, Death Valley, Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone. Devil's claw, sumac, yucca root, orange-shafted flicker (woodpecker) quills; coiled (2 rod and bundle of deer grass or basket grass); diameter: 21.5 x 48 cm (8 7/16 x 18 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.482",
    "collection": "AA - Native North America",
    "didYouKnow": "The two small, pink crosses on this basket may be a maker’s mark.",
    "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"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bergh, Susan E., \"Unburied Treasure\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 45 no. 10, December 2005",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: 6",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2005-10/page/6"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.482",
    "creditline": "Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:16:44.598000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.482/1917.482_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 97877,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Native North America",
    "med": "devil's claw, sumac, yucca root, orange-shafted flicker (woodpecker) quills; coiled (2 rod and bundle of deer grass or basket grass)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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