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"tombstone": "Pair of Ear Ornaments, c. 500\u2013200 BCE. Peru, North Highlands, Chav\u00edn de Huantar(?), Chav\u00edn style. Hammered and cut gold; diameter: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); overall: 2.6 cm (1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tishman, 1957.400",
"current_location": "232 Andean",
"title": "Pair of Ear Ornaments",
"creation_date": "c. 500\u2013200 BCE",
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"id": 361354,
"title": "25 Centuries of Peruvian Art",
"description": "25 Centuries of Peruvian Art. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (co-organizer) (October 3-November 3, 1961).",
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"id": 300804,
"title": "Treasures of Peruvian Gold",
"description": "Treasures of Peruvian Gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 23-April 3, 1966).",
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"id": 335423,
"title": "The Arts of Pre- Hispanic America",
"description": "The Arts of Pre- Hispanic America. The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (organizer) (April 12-May 31, 1970).",
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"description": "Juan Dalmau, Peru, to Francisco Xavier Mandiola",
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"description": "Francisco Xavier Mandiola, sold to Joseph Brummer, Brummer Galler",
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"date": "1935-1947",
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"description": "Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, to Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tishman",
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"description": "There seems to be a link between Chav\u00edn religion and appearance of the Andes\u2019 first large precious-metal objects, made using revolutionary new metallurgical processes. Chav\u00edn may have developed these technical innovations to express the inexpressible, the \"wholly other\" nature of its religion. In many areas, elite men and women wore the ornaments as emblems of their ties to this religion, and eventually were buried with them. These 16 objects, along with three others not in the museum\u2019s collection, are said to have come as a group from Chav\u00edn itself.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, March, 1958.",
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"citation": "The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.",
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"citation": "William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World. Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962.",
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