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        "id": 147853,
        "accession_number": "1974.211",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Female Figure (akua'ba), 1925\u201350. Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Akan-style artist. Wood, glass beads, and natural fiber; overall: 35 cm (13 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1974.211",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Female Figure (akua'ba)",
        "creation_date": "1925\u201350",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1925,
        "creation_date_latest": 1950,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Akan-style artist"
        ],
        "technique": "Wood, glass beads, and natural fiber",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Overall: 35 cm (13 3/4 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "overall": {
                "height": 0.35
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 310042,
                    "title": "Images of the Mind",
                    "description": "<i>Images of the Mind</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).",
                    "opening_date": "1987-07-07T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1968: \"African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection,\" cat. no. 101, repr.",
                    "opening_date": "1968-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1975: \"Year in Review 1974,\" CMA Bulletin LXII (March, 1973), p. 97, no. 21.",
                    "opening_date": "1973-03-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1987: \"Images of the Mind,\" July 7-August 23, 1987, not repr.",
                    "opening_date": "1987-07-07T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Katherine C. White",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->This work appeared in the 1968 exhibition <em>African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection</em> as cat. no. 101</div>"
                ],
                "date": "at least 1968\u20131974",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1975\u2013",
                "sortorder": 2
            }
        ],
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        "related_works": [],
        "former_accession_numbers": [
            "739.68"
        ],
        "did_you_know": "The large, high forehead and the rolled flesh of the neck reflect Akan standards of beauty and health.",
        "description": "An infertile woman would be advised by a priest to commission such a sculpture and care for it as if it were her baby. With the aim to induce fertility, or to ensure the birth of a healthy and beautiful daughter, the <em>akua'ba</em> figure is carried on the woman's back inside her wrapper. After a successful birth, the figure is placed in the priest's shrine as an offering, or it is given to the newborn as a toy.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79927452"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Fagg, William. <em>African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968. No. 101.",
                "page_number": "No. 101.",
                "url": ""
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.211",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Gift of Katherine C. White",
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        "athena_id": 147853,
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1975-02-07T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1925,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1925\u201350",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [
            "Doll (akua'ba)"
        ],
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:04:05.628000"
    }
}