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        "tombstone": "Face Mask, early 1900s. Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, possibly Yaure-style carver. Wood, paint, and colorant; overall: 31.7 cm (12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1971.296",
        "current_location": "108A African",
        "title": "Face Mask",
        "creation_date": "early 1900s",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1900,
        "creation_date_latest": 1920,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, possibly Yaure-style carver"
        ],
        "technique": "Wood, paint, and colorant",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Mask",
        "measurements": "Overall: 31.7 cm (12 1/2 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
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                "height_inch": 12,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.5
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1968: \"African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection,\" cat. no. 73, repr.",
                    "opening_date": "1968-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1973: \"Year in Review 1972,\" CMA Bulletin LX (March, 1973), p. 106, no. 22, repr. p. 104.",
                    "opening_date": "1973-03-01T00:00:00"
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Harry Franklin, Los Angeles",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<ul><li><!--block-->1974 object label</li><li><!--block-->2003 Object Report, curatorial file</li></ul><div><!--block--><br></div>"
                ],
                "date": "by 1965",
                "sortorder": null
            },
            {
                "description": "Katherine White Reswick, by purchase from the above",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<ul><li><!--block-->1974 object label</li><li><!--block-->2003 Object Report, curatorial file</li></ul>"
                ],
                "date": "1965\u201371",
                "sortorder": null
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        ],
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        "former_accession_numbers": [
            "748.68"
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        "did_you_know": "The carver compressed the scale of both the elephant's ears and tusks in this mask.",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "Central C\u00f4te d'Ivoire is characterized by cultural assimilation and adoption. Connections can be seen in masquerades and in composite mask forms. Here, masks often blend human and animal features, and the depiction of elephant traits is a recurring theme. Yaure peoples associated elephant masks with a cult called Dye, and they appear when important sacrifices have to be made.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1971.296-face-mask"
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            {
                "citation": "Fagg, William, and Cleveland Museum of Art. 1968. <em>African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, cat. 73.",
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                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art \"1972 Year in Review.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 3, cat. 22.",
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                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "African Arts 1972b, \"New Acquisitions.\" African Arts 6, no. 1 (1972): 75.",
                "page_number": "",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. 15, p. 60 - 61",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 07:29:42.156000"
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