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        "tombstone": "Figure , 1800s. Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Akan-style artist. Terracotta; overall: 12.7 cm (5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1974.205",
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                    "description": "CMA 1968: \"African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection,\" cat. no. 94 (incorrectly described), repr. on right above text for cat. 95.",
                    "opening_date": "1968-01-01T00:00:00"
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                    "description": "CMA 1975: \"Year in Review 1974,\" CMA Bulletin LXII (March, 1975), p. 97, no. 24",
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                    "description": "Kent, OH, Kent State University Art Gallery, \"Leadership Arts of West Africa,\" September 15-October 15, 1993.",
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        "description": "A master female potter among the Asante created this clay sculpture to commemorate the departed. While not a naturalistic portrait, this figure depicts features associated with the dead person such as coiffure or facial marks. The rolls of flesh on the neck are a widespread artistic convention for beauty, prosperity, and well-being. After placing the memorial in a sacred forest clearing, family members invoked the spirit of the departed and asked it to accept the sculpture and facilitate communications with ancestors.",
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