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"id": 312180,
"title": "Art of the Americas",
"description": "Art of the Americas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 19-April 11, 1943).",
"opening_date": "1943-03-19T04:00:00"
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"title": "Art of the Americas",
"description": "Art of the Americas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 1945-January 6, 1946).",
"opening_date": "1945-11-09T05:00:00"
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"id": 300804,
"title": "Treasures of Peruvian Gold",
"description": "Treasures of Peruvian Gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23-April 3, 1966).",
"opening_date": "1966-02-23T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 357417,
"title": "Shamanism",
"description": "Shamanism. Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago, Chile (organizer) (December 1, 2022-June 30, 2023) https://museo.precolombino.cl/2022/12/12/chamanismo-visiones-fuera-del-tiempo-la-nueva-exposicion-del-museo-chileno-de-arte-precolombino/.",
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"description": "Toledo, OH: Toledo Museum of Art; January 1944. \"The Ancient Art of the North American Continent.\"",
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"description": "Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; November 9, 1945- January 6, 1946. \"Art of the Americas.\"",
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"description": "Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 23- April 3, 1966. \"Treasures of Peruvian Gold.\"",
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"description": "The same creature, nasty but precious, appears in both pendants (1939.515). Human in its posture and arms, its head is that of an animal with a long, toothy snout. It holds batons to its mouth, and whiskers or ears flare from the sides of the head. The little headdress domes are mystifying; they have been described as mushrooms, gourds, and ceramic vessels, among other things.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William. \"Colombian Gold.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 27, no. 1 (January 1940): 3-4.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138060"
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"citation": "Milliken, William. \"Exhibition of Gold.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 9 (November 1947): 211-212.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 211-212; Reproduced: p. 234",
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