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        "tombstone": "Mask (Kple Kple or Kouassi Gbe), late 1800s-early 1900s. Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Baule-style carver. Wood, resin, and paint; overall: 40.7 cm (16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1975.155",
        "current_location": "108A African",
        "title": "Mask (Kple Kple or Kouassi Gbe)",
        "creation_date": "late 1800s-early 1900s",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1875,
        "creation_date_latest": 1925,
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        "culture": [
            "Africa, West Africa, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Baule-style carver"
        ],
        "technique": "Wood, resin, and paint",
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        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Mask",
        "measurements": "Overall: 40.7 cm (16 in.)",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 302170,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1975",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1975</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 3-March 7, 1976).",
                    "opening_date": "1976-02-03T05:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "CMA 1968: \"African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection,\" cat. no. 80, repr.",
                    "opening_date": "1968-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1976: \"Year in Review 1975,\" CMA Bulletin LXIII Feb., 1976), p. 66, no. 28",
                    "opening_date": "1976-02-01T00:00:00"
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            {
                "description": "Metal Blast, Inc.; Katherine White Reswick",
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        "did_you_know": "The wearer of this mask would secure it on his face by biting onto a (now-missing) piece of rope attached to the back.",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "This <em>kple kple</em> mask belongs to the first of four pairs of masks that entertain as part of a performance sequence in the <em>goli</em> dance. The male in each pair dances first. The masks are worn by young boys in a rapid stamping dance. The masqueraders alternate with each other and watch their partners perform. The head of the male kple kple is painted red, whereas the female, like this example, is colored black.",
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                "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. 80.",
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                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "CMA 1976, \"1975 Year in Review.\" Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 3, cat. 22.",
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                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.",
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                "url": ""
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 07:36:54.952000"
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