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    "localId": "97948",
    "label": "Miniature Round Basket",
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    "id": "97948",
    "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 just a few 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/1917.543",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Basketry"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 0.8 cm (5/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "California, Pomo, late 19th-early 20th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.543"
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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: 0.8 cm (5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price, 1917.543",
    "collection": "AA - Native North America",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 97936,
            "description": "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"
        },
        {
            "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"
        }
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    "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"
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    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.543",
    "creditline": "Presented by William Albert Price in memory of Mrs. William Albert Price",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:17:06.537000",
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    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Native North America",
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