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        "id": 146113,
        "accession_number": "1971.299",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Heddle Pulley, c. 1935. Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Baule-style carver. Wood and metal; overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1971.299",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Heddle Pulley",
        "creation_date": "c. 1935",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1930,
        "creation_date_latest": 1940,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Baule-style carver"
        ],
        "technique": "Wood and metal",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Implements",
        "measurements": "Overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "overall": {
                "height": 0.14
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
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        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Katherine White Reswick",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [],
                "date": null,
                "sortorder": null
            }
        ],
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        "related_works": [],
        "former_accession_numbers": [
            "788.68"
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        "did_you_know": "The man on this heddle pulley is depicted with a hairstyle that was fashionable at the time it was made.",
        "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.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79924304"
            ],
            "internet_archive": []
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Fagg, William Buller. <em>African Tribal Images: the Katherine White Reswick Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968, no. 87.",
                "page_number": "no. 87",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cYear in Review 1972.\u201d In <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>60, no. 3 (March 1973): 106, no. 26.",
                "page_number": "p. 106, no. 26",
                "url": null
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.299",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Gift of Katherine C. White",
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        "athena_id": 146113,
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1971-12-11T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1930,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "c. 1935",
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        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "alternate_titles": [],
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:06:19.275000"
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