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    "localId": "20483",
    "label": "Head of Bhairava",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.359"
}

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    "id": "20483",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.359",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Head of Bhairava",
    "description": "This hollow, mask-like head, carved and finished only in the front, is a typical Newar creation. Although it represents Bhairava, such heads (without a body) are used in bacchanalian rituals during the annual festival devoted to the god Indra. The festival of Indra, a deity of Vedic origin, was once extensively popular across the subcontinent, but seems to have survived only in Nepal.",
    "provenance": "John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.",
    "date": "late 14th-15th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.359",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "sculpture (visual works)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/REF_F.38_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/REF_F.38_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 76.2,
            "height": 72.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 30 x W: 28 1/2 in. (76.2 x 72.4 cm)"
}

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    "med": "wood with polychrome",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15526"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "INT"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2071"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/REF_F.38_Fnt_UK.jpg",
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