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        "accession_number": "1974.206",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Mask, by 1949. Onyide Adugbologe (Nigerian, c. 1875\u20131949). Wood and paint; overall: 35.5 cm (14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1974.206",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Mask",
        "creation_date": "by 1949",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1880,
        "creation_date_latest": 1949,
        "artists_tags": [
            "male"
        ],
        "culture": [
            "Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Ab\u1eb9\u0301\u00f2k\u00fata, Yor\u00f9b\u00e1"
        ],
        "technique": "Wood and paint",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Mask",
        "measurements": "Overall: 35.5 cm (14 in.)",
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                "height_inch": 14,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.0
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 211738,
                    "title": "The Power of the Mask in Africa",
                    "description": "<i>The Power of the Mask in Africa</i>. Kent State University Art Galleries, OH (October 15-November 5, 1997).",
                    "opening_date": "1997-10-15T00:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": []
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "George Jurgens, New York",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->Memorandum from William D. Wixom to Ursula Korneitchouk and Del Gutridge. 12/18/74. CMA Archives</div>"
                ],
                "date": "?\u20131967",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "Katherine (Reswick Merkel) C. White",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->Memorandum from William D. Wixom to Ursula Korneitchouk and Del Gutridge. 12/18/74. CMA Archives</div>"
                ],
                "date": "1967\u20131974",
                "sortorder": 2
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1974\u2013",
                "sortorder": 3
            }
        ],
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        "related_works": [],
        "former_accession_numbers": [
            "630.68"
        ],
        "did_you_know": "The prominent teeth on this sculpture may be a visual or symbolic reference to a hare.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "Onyide Adugobologe was part of a famous carving workshop that his father founded in the late 1800s in the town of Abeokuta, Nigeria. This mask was made for the <em>eg\u00fang\u00fan</em> society, whose masquerades honored departed ancestors.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [],
            "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. 111.",
                "page_number": "no. 111",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cYear in Review 1974.\u201d In Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (March 1975): 97, no. 22.",
                "page_number": "p. 97, no. 22",
                "url": null
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.206",
        "images": {},
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        "creditline": "Gift of Katherine C. White",
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        "athena_id": 147845,
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            {
                "id": 10173,
                "description": "Onyide Adugbologe (Nigerian, c. 1875\u20131949)",
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                "birth_year": "1875",
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                "use_in_caption": true,
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        ],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1975-02-07T00:00:00",
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        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "by 1949",
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        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [
            "Egungun Mask"
        ],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:50:48.576000"
    }
}