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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 12, 2024-November 2, 2025).", "opening_date": "2024-10-12T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Natasha Eilenberg, Cornwall, CT, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131996", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1996\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The figure wears a head-dress, <em>kirita-makuta</em>, a diadem tied in the back and pointed at top.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This depiction of Durga is rare and important, as it is a large-scale example of the goddess in bronze. Her conquest over the buffalo demon is indicated by its severed head at her feet. 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New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1969.", "page_number": "", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cCleveland Museum of Art Acquires Rare Egyptian Sculpture, Old Master Painting, Important Cambodian Bronze,\u201d June 13, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "page_number": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4046"}, {"citation": "Czuma, Stanislaw J. \"Slayer of the Buffalo Demon.\" <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> April 1997: pp. 8\u20139.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 8\u20139", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1997-04/page/8"}, {"citation": "Bunker, Emma C., and Douglas Latchford. <em>Khmer Bronzes: New Interpretations of the Past</em>. 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