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"id": 219999,
"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": "Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum; Nov.15- Dec. 15, 1937. \"Art of the Maya.\" Cat. no. 13, repr. no.13.Listed in catalogue as lent by the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.",
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"description": "Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, 1951, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"description": "Depicted as an elderly man with a conch shell on his back, this plaque probably portrays God N, the deity who supports the sky.",
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"citation": "Maurer, Evan, and Molly Hennen. Symboles sacr\u00e9s: quatre mille ans d'art des Am\u00e9riques. Paris: R\u00e9union des mus\u00e9es nationaux, 2002.",
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