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{
    "localId": "97926",
    "label": "Gift Basket",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "97926",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Gift Basket",
    "description": "These baskets were probably created to be sold to non-Indian collectors and tourists. The feathered basket, however, is based on an older type that was given as a treasured gift on various occasions, including ceremonies that marked the stages of life (birth, puberty, marriage, and so forth).",
    "date": "1895",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.521",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79482774"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Basketry"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.521/1917.521_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.521/1917.521_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.521/1917.521_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 5 x 11.6 cm (1 15/16 x 4 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "California, Pomo, Lytton Springs, Alexander Valley, late 19th-early 20th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.521"
}

{
    "tec": "Bulrush, Sedge; Coiled (3 rods)",
    "tombstone": "Gift Basket, 1895. California, Pomo, Lytton Springs, Alexander Valley, late 19th-early 20th century. Bulrush, Sedge; Coiled (3 rods); diameter: 5 x 11.6 cm (1 15/16 x 4 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.521",
    "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/1917.521",
    "creditline": "Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:16:50.480000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.521/1917.521_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 97926,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Native North America",
    "med": "Bulrush, Sedge; Coiled (3 rods)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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