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        "id": 146104,
        "accession_number": "1971.291",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Mask, c. 1940\u201350. Africa, West Africa, Burkina Faso, Bobo-style maker. Wood, colorant, and cord; overall: 86.4 cm (34 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1971.291",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Mask",
        "creation_date": "c. 1940\u201350",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1940,
        "creation_date_latest": 1950,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Africa, West Africa, Burkina Faso, Bobo-style maker"
        ],
        "technique": "Wood, colorant, and cord",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Mask",
        "measurements": "Overall: 86.4 cm (34 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "overall": {
                "height": 0.864,
                "height_inch": 34,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.0
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1968: \"African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection,\" cat. no. 32, repr.",
                    "opening_date": "1968-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1973: \"Year in Review 1972,\" CMA Bulletin LX (March, 1973), p. 106, no. 21",
                    "opening_date": "1973-03-01T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Julius Carlebach, NY (1961)",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": null,
                "sortorder": null
            },
            {
                "description": "Katherine White",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?\u20131971",
                "sortorder": 2
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1971\u2013",
                "sortorder": 3
            }
        ],
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        "related_works": [],
        "former_accession_numbers": [
            "861.68"
        ],
        "did_you_know": "Master sculptors from Burkina Faso still make versions of masks like this today. In 2012, Burkinab\u00e9 artist Yacouba Bonde came to the CMA to demonstrate his carving expertise and make a mask for the museum.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "This towering mask was worn by an initiated man in his twenties or thirties. The red, black, and white pigments are commonly used in Burkina Faso. Later, these colors became associated with the names of three major rivers and with the Burkinab\u00e9 flag.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [],
            "internet_archive": []
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Fagg, William, and Cleveland Museum of Art. 1968. <em>African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, no. 32.",
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                "url": ""
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.291",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Gift of Katherine C. White",
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        "athena_id": 146104,
        "creators": [],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1971-12-11T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1940,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "c. 1940\u201350",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [
            "Do Mask"
        ],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-05-26 18:02:42.476000"
    }
}