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"title": "Statuette of a Black African Person",
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"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. \u201cA Horseman from Tarentum.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 9 (November 1981): 331\u2013338.",
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Published as: Black Banausos",
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