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        "id": 147486,
        "accession_number": "1973.219",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Heddle Pulley (bird), c. 1935. Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Baule-style carver. Wood and metal; overall: 21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1973.219",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Heddle Pulley (bird)",
        "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": "Tools and Equipment",
        "measurements": "Overall: 21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "overall": {
                "height": 0.216,
                "height_inch": 8,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.5
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301878,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1973",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1973</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).",
                    "opening_date": "1974-01-30T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "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": [
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1968: \"African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection,\" cat. no. 76, repr.",
                    "opening_date": "1968-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1974: \"Year in Review 1973,\" CMA Bulletin LXI Feb., 1974), p. 73, no. 15, repr. p. 70.",
                    "opening_date": "1974-02-01T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Katherine C. White [1929-1980], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1973",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1973-",
                "sortorder": 2
            }
        ],
        "find_spot": null,
        "related_works": [],
        "former_accession_numbers": [
            "906.68"
        ],
        "did_you_know": "There are eleven species of hornbills in C\u00f4te d'Ivoire, where this bird-topped pulley was carved.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "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 pully depicts a slender-beaked hornbill reaching toward its belly and may allude to fertility. Besides inspiring weavers, these publicly visible miniature sculptures reportedly acted as \u201cadvertisements\u201d for carvers in parts of West Africa.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79926641"
            ],
            "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. 76.",
                "page_number": "",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "\u201cThe Year in Review for 1973.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31\u201378.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 70; Mentioned: p. 73, no. 15",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513"
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.219",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Gift of Katherine C. White",
        "image_credit": null,
        "sketchfab_id": null,
        "sketchfab_url": null,
        "gallery_donor_text": null,
        "athena_id": 147486,
        "creators": [],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1973-12-28T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1930,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "c. 1935",
        "collapse_artists": false,
        "on_loan": false,
        "recently_acquired": false,
        "record_type": "object",
        "conservation_statement": null,
        "has_conservation_images": false,
        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [
            "Loom Pulley in the Form of a Bird's Head",
            "Heddle Pulley"
        ],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-05-19 21:47:32.489000"
    }
}