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        "tombstone": "Tulwar Sword (case), 1700s. India, probably Deccan. Wood scabbard with velvet and metallic thread; overall: 96.6 cm (38 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of S. D. Wright, 1930.704.b",
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        "title": "Tulwar Sword (case)",
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        "measurements": "Overall: 96.6 cm (38 1/16 in.)",
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                {
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                    "title": "Art and Stories from Mughal India",
                    "description": "<i>Art and Stories from Mughal India</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).",
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                "description": "Samson D. Wright [1866-1938], Cleveland Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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        "description": "This long curved sword and scabbard are of the kind used and worn by Mughal nobility, as seen often in paintings. The openwork hilt is characteristic of swords from the southern Indian region known as the Deccan. By the end of the 1500s, the Mughals began making regular incursions into the Deccan as they attempted to expand their empire, increasing the exchange of art forms.",
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                "citation": "\u201cPart II. Fifteenth Annual Report of the Cleveland Museum of Art 1930.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 18, no. 2, 1931, pp. 1\u2013128.",
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