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"tombstone": "Tunic, 400\u2013200 BCE. Peru, South Coast, Ica Valley, Ocucaje site?, Paracas people. Looped camelid fiber; average: 94 x 82.6 cm (37 x 32 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1940.514",
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"title": "Tunic",
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"department": "Textiles",
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"type": "Textile",
"measurements": "Average: 94 x 82.6 cm (37 x 32 1/2 in.)",
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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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"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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"title": "Fiberworks: Tradition and Technique",
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"id": 296750,
"title": "Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation",
"description": "Gallery 232- Andean Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 23, 2017-August 27, 2018).",
"opening_date": "2017-08-23T04:00:00"
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"id": 540077,
"title": "Ancient Andean Textiles",
"description": "Ancient Andean Textiles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 2023-December 8, 2024).",
"opening_date": "2023-12-08T05:00:00"
}
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"description": "Art of the Americas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 19-April 11,1943).",
"opening_date": "1943-03-19T04:00:00Z"
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"description": "Pre-Columbian Art: The Native Art of America Before the Conquest, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, (January 10-February 1,1953).",
"opening_date": "1953-01-10T05:00:00Z"
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"description": "Ancient Arts of the Andes. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (January 26-March 26, 1954).",
"opening_date": "1954-01-26T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Latin America, Then and Now. The Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO (September 16-October 4,1959).",
"opening_date": "1959-09-16T04:00:00Z"
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"description": "Town and Country (Window Display). The Halle Bros. Co. Cleveland, OH (January 29-February 8,1960).",
"opening_date": "1960-01-29T05:00:00Z"
}
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{
"description": "Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984] and Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983], Cleveland OH, 1940, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"date": "?-1940",
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"did_you_know": "The red dyes in this tunic likely come from madder root.",
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"description": "The striking, large-scale figure shown on this tunic has an elaborate, monkey-like tail as well as head appendages that mark the creature as supernatural. This tunic, a relatively rare type, was made not on a loom but rather by working the yarns into loops with a needle. It is made entirely with camelid fiber, which can readily be dyed in a range of vivid colors. The fiber comes from one of the four camels (camelids) native to the Andes Mountains\u2014the alpaca and llama, both domesticated, and the wild guanaco and vicu\u00f1a. On the coast, it represents a prestige import.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William M. \"Exhibition of the \"Art of the Americas\".\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 9 (1945)",
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"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141236"
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"citation": "Society of the Four Arts (Palm Beach, Fla.), and Gordon F. Ekholm. Pre-Columbian Art, the Native Art of America Before the Conquest: Jan. 10-Feb. 1, 1953. Palm Beach: Society of the Four Arts, 1952.",
"page_number": "Cat. No. 90",
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"citation": "Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), and Wendell Clark Bennett. 32 Masterworks of Andean Art from the Exhibition Ancient Arts of the Andes. 1955.",
"page_number": "p. 63, fig. 71",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 344",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n66"
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 297",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n321"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 297",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n321"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 401",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n421"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n23"
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"citation": "\"New in the Galleries.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 57, no. 6 (November/December 2017): Back cover.",
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"citation": "\"Permanent Collection Installations.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 64, no. 2 (June/July/August 2024): 14-15.",
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