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    "localId": "28143",
    "label": "Bell Pendant of a Duck",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.308"
}

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    "id": "28143",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.308",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bell Pendant of a Duck",
    "description": "Bells played an important role in ritual activities, costume decoration, and burial offerings. This bell has a slot in the bottom, and a figure of a duck on top. The loop for suspension is behind the duck's body.",
    "provenance": "[Found at a graveyard between Divalá (a village on the outskirts of settled Panama, thirty miles west of David in the province of Chiriqui) and Costa Rica, Spring 1909]; Tiffany & Co. New York, 1910, by purchase [from \"\"Indians,\"\" see December 29, 1910 correspondance from Tiffany & Co. to Henry Walters]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "800-1521 (Pre-Early Conquest)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.308",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "pendants (jewelry)",
        "bells (idiophones)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_57.308_Gp_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_57.308_Gp_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Panamanian",
    "med": "gold and copper alloy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15521"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "AME"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_57.308_Gp_BW.jpg",
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