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The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1940.507", "current_location": "232 Andean", "title": "Spear Thrower", "creation_date": "200 BCE\u2013200 CE", "creation_date_earliest": -200, "creation_date_latest": 200, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Peru, South Coast, late Paracas or early Nasca style"], "technique": "bone, hematite, cotton thread, sinew", "support_materials": [], "department": "Art of the Americas", "collection": "AA - Andes", "type": "Arms and Armor", "measurements": "Overall: 5.8 x 2 cm (2 5/16 x 13/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.058, "height_inch": 2, "height_inch_fraction": 0.3125, "width": 0.02, "width_inch": 0, "width_inch_fraction": 0.8125, "length": 0.483, "length_inch": 19, "length_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 312180, "title": "Art of the Americas", "description": "<i>Art of the Americas</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 19-April 11, 1943).", "opening_date": "1943-03-19T04:00:00"}, {"id": 312131, "title": "Art of the Americas", "description": "<i>Art of the Americas</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 1945-January 6, 1946).", "opening_date": "1945-11-09T05:00:00"}, {"id": 300804, "title": "Treasures of Peruvian Gold", "description": "<i>Treasures of Peruvian Gold</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23-April 3, 1966).", "opening_date": "1966-02-23T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, 1940, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1940", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1940", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Spear throwers, also called <em>atlatls</em>, use leverage to propel a spear faster and farther through the air.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Spear throwers improve a spear's range and thrust. The spear was placed against the stone pivot and hurled using the thumb rest, carved as a figure with a skeletal chest, back-bent head, and a severed human head at its rear. This figure, frequent in art, is not well understood, but its appearance here suggests a connection to death. The shaft's carving makes clever use of the bone's marrow cavity.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60743959"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1940.507-spear-thrower"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Ubbelohde-Doering, Heinrich. The Art of Ancient Peru. New York: F.A. Praeger, 1952.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 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