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        "id": 129226,
        "accession_number": "1952.118",
        "share_license_status": "CC0",
        "tombstone": "Pendant: Face in Crescent, 1900s. Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, probably Baule-style goldsmith. Gold; overall: 7 x 7.4 cm (2 3/4 x 2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1952.118",
        "current_location": "108C African Jewelry and Metalwork",
        "title": "Pendant: Face in Crescent",
        "creation_date": "1900s",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1900,
        "creation_date_latest": 1999,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, probably Baule-style goldsmith"
        ],
        "technique": "Gold",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Jewelry",
        "measurements": "Overall: 7 x 7.4 cm (2 3/4 x 2 15/16 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "overall": {
                "height": 0.07,
                "height_inch": 2,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.75,
                "width": 0.074,
                "width_inch": 2,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 205336,
                    "title": "Baule:  African Art/Western Eyes",
                    "description": "<i>Baule:  African Art/Western Eyes</i>. Yale University Art Gallery (organizer) (August 30, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Art Institute of Chicago (February 14-May 10, 1998).",
                    "opening_date": "1997-08-30T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 221090,
                    "title": "Baule:  African Art/Western Eyes",
                    "description": "<i>Baule:  African Art/Western Eyes</i>. Museum for African Art, NY (September 11, 1998-January 3, 1999); National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC (February 9-May 16, 1999).",
                    "opening_date": "1998-09-11T00:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 8/30/97 - 1/4/98. Art Institute of Chicago, 2/14/98 - 5/19/98. NY: The Museum for African Art, 9/11/98 - 1/3/99. Washington, DC: National Museum for African Art, 2/9/99 - 5/16/99, Baule: African Art: Western Eyes. color repr. p. 201.",
                    "opening_date": "1997-08-30T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Ren\u00e9 Rasmussen, Paris, France",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1951    ",
                "sortorder": null
            },
            {
                "description": "Nasli Heeramaneck, New York",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": null,
                "sortorder": null
            }
        ],
        "find_spot": null,
        "related_works": [],
        "former_accession_numbers": [],
        "did_you_know": "Although the surface of this pendant was likely enriched (worked to enhance the surface level of gold) at the time of manufacture, the dark spots on the face show us where this enriched layer has worn away.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "This pendant was cast in gold using the lost-wax method. Gold objects are the only Baule art forms associated with ancestor spirits. Usually hidden in pots or suitcases, gold adornments are displayed on important occasions such as funerals. They are laid out around the corpse before burial. A widow will wear them on a chain around her neck or attached to her hair at the ceremony signaling the end of mourning.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60760407"
            ],
            "internet_archive": [
                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1952.118-pendant-face-in-cres"
            ]
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 390",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n72"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Vogel, Susan Mullin. <em>Baule: African Art, Western Eyes</em>. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1997.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 299; Reproduced: p. 201",
                "url": null
            }
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        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.118",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1952-04-28T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1900,
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        "date_text": "1900s",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:40:11.018000"
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