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        "tombstone": "Head, 1650\u20131700. Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Akan-style artist. Terracotta; overall: 12.7 cm (5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1975.157",
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        "title": "Head",
        "creation_date": "1650\u20131700",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1650,
        "creation_date_latest": 1700,
        "artists_tags": [],
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            "Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Akan-style artist"
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        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Overall: 12.7 cm (5 in.)",
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                {
                    "description": "CMA 1968: \"African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection,\" cat. no. 98, repr.",
                    "opening_date": "1968-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1976: \"Year in Review 1975,\" CMA Bulletin LXIII (Feb., 1976), p. 66, no. 27",
                    "opening_date": "1976-02-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "Kent, OH, Kent State University Art Gallery, 1993: Leadership Arts of West Africa, September 15-October 15, 1993.",
                    "opening_date": "1993-09-15T00:00:00"
                }
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            {
                "description": "Katherine C. White",
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                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->This work appeared in the 1968 exhibition <em>African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection</em> as cat. no. 98</div>"
                ],
                "date": "at least 1968\u20131975",
                "sortorder": 1
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1975\u2013",
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        ],
        "did_you_know": "The projection below the neck would allow this head to function as a stopper for a vessel or as a way to affix it to the body of a statue.",
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        "description": "Akan sculptures made head forms as idealized portraits of the deceased. Made of terracotta, a low-termperature fired ceramic, this head features simple shapes of triangles, curves, and lozenges to represent the nose, mouth, and eyes. The style of this terracotta memorial head allows us to date it, and locate its likely place of manufacture. Scholars believe that this small, hollow-backed style sculpture is from the Ahinsan funerary site and was made between 1650 and 1700.",
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                "citation": "Fagg, William. <em>African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968.",
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