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        "id": 146934,
        "accession_number": "1972.334",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Pair of Twin Figures (\u00c8re \u00ccbej\u00ec), c. 1930s. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yor\u00f9b\u00e1-style maker. Wood, organic material, probably bluing, glass beads, and natural fiber; each: 27.3 cm (10 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1972.334",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Pair of Twin Figures (\u00c8re \u00ccbej\u00ec)",
        "creation_date": "c. 1930s",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1930,
        "creation_date_latest": 1939,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yor\u00f9b\u00e1-style maker"
        ],
        "technique": "Wood, organic material, probably bluing, glass beads, and natural fiber",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Each: 27.3 cm (10 3/4 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "each": {
                "height": 0.273
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301752,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1972",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1972</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).",
                    "opening_date": "1973-02-27T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1968: \"African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection,\" cat. no. 129, repr.",
                    "opening_date": "1968-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1973: \"Year in Review 1972,\" CMA Bulletin LX (March, 1973), p. 107, no. 41.",
                    "opening_date": "1973-03-01T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Ross Widen, Cleveland",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?\u20131966",
                "sortorder": null
            },
            {
                "description": "Katherine White Reswick (Katherine C. White)",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1966\u20131973",
                "sortorder": null
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1973\u2013",
                "sortorder": 3
            }
        ],
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        "related_works": [],
        "former_accession_numbers": [],
        "did_you_know": "The blue color of these figures' hair is a mix of the natural material indigo and laundry blue, a powdered substance used to brighten laundry.",
        "description": "Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 people, who have the world's highest number of multiple births, regard twins as sacred children. Should one die, the parents may commission a memorial figure. They then care for the figure (decorate, clothe, wash, and feed it), symbolically honoring and entertaining the spirit of the departed twin so it does not call its partner to join it in the otherworld. The indigo and washing blue in the hair and the red camwood cosmetic rubbed on the bodies of these figures are signs of the devotions of their former owners.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79925721"
            ],
            "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. 129.",
                "page_number": "",
                "url": ""
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.334",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Gift of Katherine C. White",
        "image_credit": null,
        "sketchfab_id": null,
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        "gallery_donor_text": null,
        "athena_id": 146934,
        "creators": [],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1973-02-12T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1930,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "c. 1930s",
        "collapse_artists": false,
        "on_loan": false,
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        "record_type": "cover",
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        "has_conservation_images": false,
        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [
            "Memorial Figure of a Departed Twin (ere ibeji)"
        ],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:05:14.448000"
    }
}