id: 129799
accession number: 1952.233
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Backrest of a Litter, 1185–1275 (radiocarbon date, 95.4% probability). Central Andes, North Coast, Chimú people, late Intermediate period. Mixed media: wood, gold alloy, pigment, shell inlay; overall: 60.4 x 95 cm (23 3/4 x 37 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1952.233
title: Backrest of a Litter
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creation date: 1185–1275 (radiocarbon date, 95.4% probability)
creation date earliest: 1185
creation date latest: 1275
current location: 232 Andean
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Central Andes, North Coast, Chimú people, late Intermediate period
technique: mixed media: wood, gold alloy, pigment, shell inlay
department: Art of the Americas
collection: AA - Andes
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 60.4 x 95 cm (23 3/4 x 37 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Treasures of Peruvian Gold
opening date: 1966-02-23T05:00:00
Treasures of Peruvian Gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23-April 3, 1966).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Ancient Arts of the Andes, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (January 26- March 29, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-01-26T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Treasures of Peruvian Gold, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23- April 3, 1996).', 'opening_date': '1996-02-23T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
John Wise, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?-1952
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1952-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
"Art and Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Art." Archaeology 6, no. 4 (1953)
page number: p. 202
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41663172
Bennett, Wendell Clark. Ancient Arts of the Andes. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1954.
page number: p. 120, fig. 137
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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. 351
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n67
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress). Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Cambridge: The Museum, 1937.
page number: p. 68
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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. 299
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n323
Glubok, Shirley, Shirley Glubok, and Gerard Nook. The Art of Ancient Peru. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967.
page number: p. 235
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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. 299
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n323
Howard, Cecil, and J. H. Parry. Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru. London: Cassell, 1970.
page number: p. 76
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Masada, Yoshio. Ancient American Art (Japan, Gakken Co. Ltd, 1973)
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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. 403
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n423
Scott, John F. Latin American Art: Ancient to Modern. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999.
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 338
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Bergh, Susan E. "Fragment of the Chimú Prisoner Textile" published on the occasion of Enchanted: Visual Histories of the Ancient Andes, July 30-November 14, 2021, Menil Collection (2021).
page number: fig. 8
url: https://www.menil.org/read/online-features/enchanted/weaving-the-world/chimu-prisoner-textile
Young, Michelle, Colin Cooke, Richard Burger, Emily Kaplan, Gabriel Prieto Jacob Bongers, et al. "Mass spectrometry measurements of mercury isotope ratios support geochemical sourcing of archaeological cinnabar in the Andean region." PLoS One 20(7): e0326414.
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url: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326414
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