{"data": {"id": 130674, "accession_number": "1953.386", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Feast Ladle, late 1800s\u2013early 1900s. Native North America, Northwest Coast, Alaska, Tlingit. Horn, bone, copper, abalone shell inlay; overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund, 1953.386", "current_location": "231 Native North American", "title": "Feast Ladle", "creation_date": "late 1800s\u2013early 1900s", "creation_date_earliest": 1850, "creation_date_latest": 1950, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Native North America, Northwest Coast, Alaska, Tlingit"], "technique": "horn, bone, copper, abalone shell inlay", "support_materials": [], "department": "Art of the Americas", "collection": "AA - Native North America", "type": "Miscellaneous", "measurements": "Overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"width": 0.13, "width_inch": 5, "width_inch_fraction": 0.125, "length": 0.442, "length_inch": 17, "length_inch_fraction": 0.375}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 519209, "title": "The Imagination of Primitive Man", "description": "<i>The Imagination of Primitive Man</i>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (organizer) (January 18-February 25, 1962).", "opening_date": "1962-01-18T05:00:00"}, {"id": 229358, "title": "Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection", "description": "<i>Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 7-May 30, 2010).", "opening_date": "2010-03-07T00:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art, </em>Hayward Gallery, London (October 7, 1976\u2013January 16,1977).", "opening_date": "1976-10-07T04:00:00Z"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Ralph C. Altman, Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1953", "sortorder": 1}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "An imposing eagle presides over the bowl of this impressive ladle.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Elaborate utensils, valuable possessions of Northwest Coast noble clans, were used during potlatch feasts. An imposing eagle hovers, patron-like, over this ladle\u2019s bowl and the bounty it once served; a bear\u2019s head appears on the underside of the bowl. Both may be crests, motifs that, like European heraldry, were exclusive to important families and referred to their histories and rights to control land and resources.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60755552"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1953.386-feast-ladle"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Coe, Ralph T. <em>Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art : Exhibition Organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain with the Support of the British-American Associates, [Held at the] Hayward Gallery, London, 7 October 1976-16 January 1977 : Catalogue</em>. [London]: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976.", "page_number": "p. 146, cat. #326", "url": ""}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 406", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n426"}, {"citation": "Crawford, Virginia. \"Northwest Coast Indian Art.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 65, no. 9 (1978).", "page_number": "p. 304", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159603"}, {"citation": "Gowing, Lawrence. <em>A History of Art</em>. London: Macmillan, 1995.", "page_number": "p. 494", "url": null}, {"citation": "Adams, Henry. <em>What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.", "page_number": "p. 24", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 339", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.386", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.386/1953.386_web.jpg", "width": "912", "height": "893", "filesize": "336134", "filename": "1953.386_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.386/1953.386_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3330", "filesize": "4659552", "filename": "1953.386_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.386/1953.386_full.tif", "width": "4288", "height": "4200", "filesize": "54067428", "filename": "1953.386_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.386/1953.386_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "803", "height": "893", "filesize": "297042"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.386/1953.386_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3056", "height": "3400", "filesize": "4413650"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.386/1953.386_alt0_full.tif", "width": "4012", "height": "4464", "filesize": "53773376"}, "date_created": "2008-02-21T20:58:04", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "The Harold T. 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