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    "localId": "98653",
    "label": "Kora",
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    "id": "98653",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Kora",
    "description": "The kora is an instrument that has 21 strings. This example is now missing many, which would have been tied along its long neck. The strings are plucked with the fingers, causing the sound to resonate in the half-sphere-shaped gourd body. Stitch marks on the back show that many cracks on the gourd were repaired in the past.",
    "date": "before 1918",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.352",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79862622"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Musical Instrument"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.352/1918.352_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.352/1918.352_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.352/1918.352_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 32.4 cm (12 3/4 in.); Overall: 111.8 cm (44 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Africa, unknown maker"
    ],
    "accession": "1918.352"
}

{
    "tec": "Gourd, wood, rawhide, string, and rope",
    "tombstone": "Kora, before 1918. Africa, unknown maker. Gourd, wood, rawhide, string, and rope; diameter: 32.4 cm (12 3/4 in.); overall: 111.8 cm (44 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles G. King Jr. collection; Gift of Ralph King in memory of Charles G. King Jr., 1918.352",
    "collection": "African Art",
    "didYouKnow": "Musicians continue to play the kora today, including in concerts at the Cleveland Museum of Art.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 5, no. 8/9 (1918): 82-85.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 82",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136230"
        },
        {
            "citation": "D. S. M. \"Exhibition of Musical Instruments.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 8, no. 9 (1921): 134-43.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 134-137",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136517"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.352",
    "creditline": "The Charles G. King Jr. collection; Gift of Ralph King in memory of Charles G. King Jr.",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:19:26.245000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.352/1918.352_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 98653,
    "dept": "African Art",
    "coll": "African Art",
    "med": "Gourd, wood, rawhide, string, and rope",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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