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"accession_number": "1974.208",
"share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
"tombstone": "Container, c. 1920. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, possibly \u1ecc\u0300y\u1ecd\u0301 region, Yor\u00f9b\u00e1-style carver. Wood, paint, and iron alloy; overall: 45.7 cm (18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1974.208",
"current_location": "108A African",
"title": "Container",
"creation_date": "c. 1920",
"creation_date_earliest": 1915,
"creation_date_latest": 1925,
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"culture": [
"Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, possibly \u1ecc\u0300y\u1ecd\u0301 region, Yor\u00f9b\u00e1-style carver"
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"technique": "Wood, paint, and iron alloy",
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"department": "African Art",
"collection": "African Art",
"type": "Vessels",
"measurements": "Overall: 45.7 cm (18 in.)",
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"length": 0.457,
"length_inch": 18,
"length_inch_fraction": 0.0
}
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"state_of_the_work": null,
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"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 304550,
"title": "A Cleveland Bestiary",
"description": "A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981).",
"opening_date": "1981-10-15T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 232698,
"title": "At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings",
"description": "At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings. The Galleries at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 4, 2014).",
"opening_date": "2014-08-28T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 446033,
"title": "Arts of Africa",
"description": "Arts of Africa. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 10, 2021-July 2, 2023).",
"opening_date": "2021-12-09T05:00:00"
}
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"legacy": [
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"description": "CMA 1968: \"African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection,\" cat. no. 136, repr.",
"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. 20.",
"opening_date": "1975-03-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA 1981: A Cleveland Bestiary, cat. no. 49, repr. p. 54.",
"opening_date": "1981-01-01T00:00:00"
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{
"description": "The Galleries at Cleveland State, OH (8/27/2014 - 10/4/2014): \"At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings\", cat. no. 13-1, p. 216.",
"opening_date": "2014-08-27T00:00:00"
}
]
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"provenance": [
{
"description": "Julius Carlebach, New York",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [
"Memorandum from William D. Wixom to Ursula Korneitchouk and Del Gutridge. 12/18/74. CMA Archives
"
],
"date": "?\u20131961",
"sortorder": 1
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{
"description": "Katherine C. White [1929-1980], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"footnotes": null,
"date": "1961\u20131974",
"sortorder": 2
},
{
"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"footnotes": null,
"date": "1974\u2013",
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}
],
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"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [
"759.68"
],
"did_you_know": "Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 language distinguishes between \"artist\" and \"carver\" based on the object someone is making.",
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "Boxes carved into animal shapes, like this goose, held kolanuts. A source of caffeine, the kolanut seed is harvested from evergreen tree fruits. Guests to Yor\u00f9b\u00e1 homes are offered the bitter nuts as a sign of hospitality; sometimes nut-filled boxes are placed on shrines. As birds are used as sacrifices, this box can be seen as a double offering of both fowl and fruit. The carver shaped and painted this waterfowl with great detail: rimmed eyes, alternating feather colors, and jointed legs ending in three-toed feet. According to a Cleveland Museum of Natural History ornithologist, these details suggest an Egyptian goose.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79927435"
],
"internet_archive": []
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "Fagg, William, and Cleveland Museum of Art. 1968. African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, no. 136.",
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},
{
"citation": "Curnow, Kathy. At Home in Africa: Design, Beauty and Pleasing Irregularity in Domestic Settings. The Galleries at Cleveland State University, 2014, cat. no. 13-1, p. 216.",
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"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 54; Mentioned: p. 51, p. 62",
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}
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"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.208",
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"creditline": "Gift of Katherine C. White",
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"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1975-02-07T00:00:00",
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"date_text": "c. 1920",
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"alternate_titles": [
"Container in the Form of a Duck"
],
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:50:48.591000"
}
}