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    "localId": "155487",
    "label": "Bead",
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    "id": "155487",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bead",
    "date": "1200–1519",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.209",
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    "wikidata": [
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 1 cm (3/8 in.)",
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    "tec": "clay covered with gold",
    "tombstone": "Bead, 1200–1519. Mexico, Oaxaca, Mixtec. Clay covered with gold; diameter: 1 cm (3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener, 1990.209",
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            "citation": "Young-Sánchez, Margaret. “The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 7 (September 1992): 234–275.",
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            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161367"
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