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    "localId": "6399",
    "label": "Palanquin Hook with Horse and Elephant",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2960"
}

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    "id": "6399",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2960",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Palanquin Hook with Horse and Elephant",
    "description": "Because hooks like this are shown in relief sculptures, we know how they were used. They were slipped over a curved pole carried by two men, and from the hooks a hammock was suspended. Perhaps the lion-headed figure is an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu destroying an enemy.",
    "provenance": "Professor and Mrs. Samuel Eilenberg, New York, 1963, by purchase; Mrs. Natasha Eilenberg, Cornwall Bridge, CT,1969; Walters Art Museum, 2000, by gift.",
    "date": "13th century or later",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2960",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "hooks"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2960_Fnt_DD_T06.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2960_Fnt_DD_T06.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25.4,
            "height": 16.5,
            "depth": 9.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 × W: 6 1/2 × D: 3 7/8 in. (25.4 × 16.5 × 9.8 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "bronze with internal iron ring",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2501",
        "2147"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "SEA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "43644a067b7c5464"
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