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        "accession_number": "1969.7",
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        "tombstone": "Mother and Child Figure, c. 1930. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo-style maker. Wood and colorant; overall: 33 cm (13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1969.7",
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        "title": "Mother and Child Figure",
        "creation_date": "c. 1930",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1925,
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        "artists_tags": [],
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            "Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo-style maker"
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        "technique": "Wood and colorant",
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        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Overall: 33 cm (13 in.)",
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            "overall": {
                "height": 0.33,
                "height_inch": 13,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.0
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301266,
                    "title": "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection",
                    "description": "<i>African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 1, 1968); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA (October 10-December 1, 1968).",
                    "opening_date": "1968-07-10T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "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"
                },
                {
                    "id": 211731,
                    "title": "Such Sweet Thunder:  African Elements in the Art of Romare Bearden",
                    "description": "<i>Such Sweet Thunder:  African Elements in the Art of Romare Bearden</i>. Kent State University Art Galleries, OH (April 9-May 9, 1997).",
                    "opening_date": "1997-04-09T00:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": []
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Katherine White Reswick",
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            "942.68"
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        "description": "In Kongo art, the image of a mother embodies the concept of <em>mooyo</em>\u2014life, spirit, vitality, and soul. The figure's facial expression, gesture, and posture convey these ideas dramatically. The mother's detached stare evokes the spiritual realm of gods and ancestors, while the raised marks on her shoulders signify citizenship and social commitment. She raises her breast in a nurturing gesture. Her cross-legged position symbolically connotes both the circle of life and the lap as the seat of stability and security for the living, her child. During the owner's lifetime, the sculpture was displayed at community meetings in their absence. After the person's death, the figure would be displayed on the grave\u2014demonstrating the continuity between the living and the departed in local beliefs.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79922349"
            ],
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            {
                "citation": "Fagg, William. <em>African Tribal Images: the Katherine White Reswick Collection</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 223",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1969.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 57, no. 1 (1970): 2-50.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p.43",
                "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25152307"
            }
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        "creditline": "Gift of Katherine C. White",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1969-01-22T00:00:00",
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        "date_text": "c. 1930",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-24 11:47:17.542000"
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