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    "localId": "26184",
    "label": "Vessel in the Shape of a Peccary",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2453"
}

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    "id": "26184",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2453",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Vessel in the Shape of a Peccary",
    "description": "Terracotta is excellent for conveying sympathetically the earthbound, seemingly inert quality of this sleeping peccary (a wild pig native to Peru) plopped on the ground. Pre-Columbian potters often adapted distended animal shapes for vessels.\tThis modest piece, made for a middle or lower class burial, is from the Vicus culture of northern Peru.",
    "provenance": "Robert L. Beare, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1981, by gift.",
    "date": "200 BC-AD 200",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2453",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "vessels"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.2453_3Qtr_BW_C81.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 16.5,
            "height": 12.7,
            "depth": 23
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 1/2 × W: 5 × L: 9 1/16 in. (16.5 × 12.7 × 23 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Vicús",
    "med": "earthenware",
    "creator_ids": [
        "8585"
    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "34"
    ]
}

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