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        "accession_number": "1969.138",
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        "tombstone": "Carving, c. 1900. Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo, early 20th century. Ivory; overall: 17.8 cm (7 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Charles E. Roseman, 1969.138",
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        "title": "Carving",
        "creation_date": "c. 1900",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1895,
        "creation_date_latest": 1905,
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        "culture": [
            "Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo, early 20th century"
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        "technique": "ivory",
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        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Overall: 17.8 cm (7 in.)",
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                "length_inch": 7,
                "length_inch_fraction": 0.0
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        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301313,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1969",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1969</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).",
                    "opening_date": "1970-01-27T05:00:00"
                }
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Mrs. Charles E. Roseman",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?\u20131969",
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            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1969\u2013",
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        "did_you_know": "The spiral composition of this artwork has been used on carved ivories in the Kingdom of Kongo since the 1500s.",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "Carved elephant ivory tusks and hippopotamus tooth ivory\u2014whether large, or small, like this example\u2014were sought-after souvenirs for Europeans who visited, lived, or worked on the coast of Central Africa. Vili carvers had been sculpting ivory for centuries. In the age of European commerce and colonialism, they created carefully observed tusks with representations of everyday life for European clients. While commissions, they also reflected what the artists chose to represent about their own societies, and sometimes about Europeans. In this small tusk, we see Congolese individuals wearing various clothing, from local-style waist wrappers to European brimmed hats.",
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