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        "accession_number": "1929.346",
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        "tombstone": "Lyre (ndongo, endongo, entongoli, or kissar), by 1928. Africa, East Africa, Uganda, Ganda or Soga style, unknown maker. Wood, reptile skin, pelt, cloth, and natural fiber; diameter: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.); overall: 43.2 cm (17 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the African Art Sponsors of Karamu House, 1929.346",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Lyre (ndongo, endongo, entongoli, or kissar)",
        "creation_date": "by 1928",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1900,
        "creation_date_latest": 1928,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Africa, East Africa, Uganda, Ganda or Soga style, unknown maker"
        ],
        "technique": "Wood, reptile skin, pelt, cloth, and natural fiber",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Musical Instrument",
        "measurements": "Diameter: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.); Overall: 43.2 cm (17 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "diameter": {
                "width": 0.318,
                "width_inch": 12,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.5
            },
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                "width": 0.432,
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                "width_inch_fraction": 0.0,
                "length": 0.578,
                "length_inch": 22,
                "length_inch_fraction": 0.75
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        },
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 518209,
                    "title": "African Art",
                    "description": "<i>African Art</i>. Karamu House, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 30, 1960).",
                    "opening_date": "1960-03-01T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
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        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Purchased by Paul Travis on behalf of the African Art Sponsors and the Gilpin Players in Ekibondo, Democratic Republic of the Congo (then-Belgian Congo) or in Uganda",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->Boger, Ann C. et al. <em>Paul B. Travis Africa 1927-1928</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. PP. 32, 35, 47 (Congo collecting location)</div><div><!--block--><br></div>",
                    "<div><!--block-->Possible other collection location is Uganda. It appears on a checklist of \"African Material\" circa 1928 described as part of a group of \"2 musical instruments. The hide on the drum part of one is made from the monitor lizard (Varanius nilaticus)\" from Uganda. Archives of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.</div><div><!--block--><br></div>"
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                "description": "The African Art Sponsors of Karamu House",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1928",
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        "did_you_know": "Imagine the buzzing, resonant sound that this string instrument would make.",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "Lyres are common instruments across eastern Africa. The many names\u2013\u2013<em>endongo</em>, <em>ndongo</em>, <em>kissar</em>, or <em>entongoli\u2014</em>reflect how many different groups use this Ugandan type. This example is made from a wooden bowl-shaped sound box covered in the skin of a reptile, possibly a monitor lizard. The strings lead up to a crossbar once decorated with goat hair tassels at each end and sometimes cowrie shells.",
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