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    "localId": "97936",
    "label": "Miniature Round Basket",
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    "id": "97936",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Miniature Round Basket",
    "description": "Miniature baskets were made to demonstrate the basket-maker’s virtuoso skill, and these tiny marvels seem to be no exception—the smallest are only five millimeters wide but still patterned. For such fine work, dexterity was required as much for preparation of materials as for weaving.",
    "date": "late 1800s-early 1900s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.532",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Basketry"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 0.6 cm (1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "California, Pomo, late 19th-early 20th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.532"
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    "tec": "plant materials",
    "tombstone": "Miniature Round Basket, late 1800s-early 1900s. California, Pomo, late 19th-early 20th century. Plant materials; diameter: 0.6 cm (1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.532",
    "collection": "AA - Native North America",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 97937,
            "description": "Miniature Rhomboidal Basket, Early 1900s. California, Pomo, 20th century (?). Coiled; overall: 4.5 x 4.8 cm (1 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.533"
        },
        {
            "id": 97938,
            "description": "Miniature Rhomboidal Basket, late 1800s-early 1900s. California, Pomo, late 19th-early 20th century. Plant materials; overall: 2.3 cm (7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.534"
        },
        {
            "id": 97939,
            "description": "Miniature Rhomboidal Basket, Early 1900s. California, Pomo, 20th century (?). Coiled; overall: 2.5 cm (1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.535"
        },
        {
            "id": 97940,
            "description": "Miniature Rhomboidal Basket, late 1800s-early 1900s. California, Pomo, late 19th-early 20th century. Plant materials; overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.536"
        },
        {
            "id": 97941,
            "description": "Miniature Round Basket, late 1800s-early 1900s. California, Pomo, late 19th-early 20th century. Plant materials; diameter: 1.7 cm (11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.537"
        },
        {
            "id": 97942,
            "description": "Miniature Oval Basket, late 1800s-early 1900s. California, Pomo, late 19th-early 20th century. Plant materials; overall: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.538"
        },
        {
            "id": 97943,
            "description": "Miniature Oval Basket, Early 1900s. California, Pomo, 20th century (?). Coiled; overall: 1 cm (3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.539"
        },
        {
            "id": 97945,
            "description": "Miniature Round Basket, late 1800s-early 1900s. California, Pomo, late 19th-early 20th century. Plant materials; diameter: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.540"
        },
        {
            "id": 97946,
            "description": "Miniature Round Basket, early 1900s. California, Pomo, 20th century (?). Coiled; diameter: 1.4 cm (9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.541"
        },
        {
            "id": 97947,
            "description": "Miniature Round Basket, late 1800s-early 1900s. California, Pomo, late 19th-early 20th century. Plant materials; diameter: 0.8 cm (5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.542"
        },
        {
            "id": 97948,
            "description": "Miniature Round Basket, late 1800s-early 1900s. California, Pomo, late 19th-early 20th century. Plant materials; diameter: 0.8 cm (5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.543"
        }
    ],
    "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/1917.532",
    "creditline": "Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:16:59.887000",
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    "sourceId": 97936,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Native North America",
    "med": "plant materials",
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    "image_url": null
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