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"title": "Bird Pendant",
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"title": "Art of the Americas",
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"opening_date": "1945-11-09T05:00:00"
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"title": "Treasures of Peruvian Gold",
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"title": "Sacred Symbols: Three Thousand Years of Native American Art [FRAME]",
"description": "Sacred Symbols: Three Thousand Years of Native American Art [FRAME]. Mus\u00e9e Fabre, Montpellier, France (July 16-September 29, 2002); Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France (October 24, 2002-January 13, 2003); Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 69001 Lyon, France (February 19-April 29, 2003); Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France (May 27-August 18, 2003); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (organizer) (October 26, 2003-January 11, 2004).",
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"description": "The kinds of birds represented in pendants of the isthmus are not clear, though the emphasis on spread wings and flight suggests birds that soar, such as eagles or hawks. In addition to their aerial agility, they are powerful birds of prey and, therefore, may have symbolized a warrior's or hunter's ferocity and skill. They were also often linked to the sun. Better understanding is difficult because the makers created no written records.",
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"citation": "Mitchell, Jan, and Julie Jones. The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1985.",
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"citation": "Foote, Helen. \"Pre-Columbian Pendants from Panama.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 30, no. 10 (December 1943): 149-152.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 146; Mentioned: p. 151",
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