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        "id": 145186,
        "accession_number": "1970.354",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Heddle Pulley (probably Noo mask), c. 1935. Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Senufo-style carver. Wood. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Butkin Foundation, 1970.354",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Heddle Pulley (probably Noo mask)",
        "creation_date": "c. 1935",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1930,
        "creation_date_latest": 1940,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Senufo-style carver"
        ],
        "technique": "wood",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Tools and Equipment",
        "dimensions": {},
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301427,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1971",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1971</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).",
                    "opening_date": "1971-12-28T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 383281,
                    "title": "Stories from Storage",
                    "description": "<i>Stories from Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-02-06T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": []
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Georges D. Rodrigues",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": null,
                "sortorder": null
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            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1970-",
                "sortorder": 2
            }
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        "did_you_know": "Using a carefully carved\u2014rather than plain\u2014heddle pulley was a way for a weaver to show how he appreciated aesthetic beauty.",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "The heddle pulley, a working element of a narrow-band loom, bears a miniature sculpture. Heddle pulleys support and separate threads during weaving. Mounted above the weaver, the pulleys allow him to glance up at an object of inspiring beauty, rather than pure functionality. This pulley depicts a face mask, a secular usage of a typically sacred mask type.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79923175"
            ],
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        },
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        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.354",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Gift of The Butkin Foundation",
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        "sketchfab_id": null,
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        "athena_id": 145186,
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1970-12-18T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1930,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "c. 1935",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [
            "Loom Pulley in the Form of a Horned Mask",
            "Heddle Pulley"
        ],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-05-19 21:47:30.261000"
    }
}