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    "localId": "98131",
    "label": "Mandaya ikat textile (dagmay)",
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    "id": "98131",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Mandaya ikat textile (dagmay)",
    "description": "This textile is a Mandaya abacá ikat cloth woven in southeastern Mindanao. It is made from hand-stripped abacá fibers that are resist-dyed using the Mandaya ikat technique, in which selected warp threads are tightly bound before dyeing to produced patterned sections during weaving. The designs embody Mandaya cosmology and are traditionally associated with protection, fertility, and the presence of <em>umagad</em> (ancestral spirits).",
    "date": "c. early 1900s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.748",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Textile"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.748/1917.748_web.jpg",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 157.8 x 78.7 cm (62 1/8 x 31 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Philippines, Mindanao"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.748"
}

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    "tec": "plain weave hemp, dyed",
    "tombstone": "Mandaya ikat textile (dagmay), c. early 1900s. Philippines, Mindanao. Plain weave hemp, dyed; overall: 157.8 x 78.7 cm (62 1/8 x 31 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. G. Field Adams, 1917.748",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "didYouKnow": "After weaving, abacá ikat cloths were soaked in iron-rich river mud, which deepens the browns and blacks, strengthens the fiber, and sets the dyes.",
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.748",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. G. Field Adams",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:17:52.951000",
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    "sourceId": 98131,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "plain weave hemp, dyed",
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