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        "id": 148162,
        "accession_number": "1975.160",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Mask, c. 1920s. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Ibibio-style maker. Wood, pigment, plant fiber, and metal; overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White, 1975.160",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Mask",
        "creation_date": "c. 1920s",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1920,
        "creation_date_latest": 1929,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Ibibio-style maker"
        ],
        "technique": "Wood, pigment, plant fiber, and metal",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Mask",
        "measurements": "Overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "overall": {
                "height": 0.495,
                "height_inch": 19,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.5
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1968: \"African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection,\" cat. no. 159, repr.",
                    "opening_date": "1968-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1976: \"Year in Review 1975,\" CMA Bulletin LXIII (Feb., 1976), p. 66, no. 31, repr.p. 64.",
                    "opening_date": "1976-02-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1986:  Possessors of Power;  African Masks and Sculpture, January 28-March 23, 1986; also at The Beachwood Museum, April 2-30, 1986.",
                    "opening_date": "1930-04-02T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Katherine C. White",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->This work was included in&nbsp;<em>African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection</em>&nbsp;in 1968. Katherine Coryton White was also known as Katherine White Reswick and Katherine Merkel.</div>"
                ],
                "date": "at least 1968\u20131975",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art by Gift",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1975\u2013",
                "sortorder": 2
            }
        ],
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        "former_accession_numbers": [
            "945.68"
        ],
        "did_you_know": "Joints on this mask's jaw allow it to open and close.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "Ibibio viewers understood that this Ekpo mask with a serene face depicts a beautiful, beneficent soul. This one probably honored a young Ibibio maiden who graduated from the \"fattening house,\" an initiation school where she was fed rich foods to strengthen and beautify her. The bead suspended around the neck of the surmounting head is an insignia of graduation. The double-braided coiffure may have been inspired by Victorian fashions observed by the sculptor in magazines or worn by English missionary women.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [],
            "internet_archive": []
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "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. 159.",
                "page_number": "",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1975.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31\u201371.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 64; Mentioned: p. 66, no. 31",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152624"
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.160",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Gift of Katherine C. White",
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        "athena_id": 148162,
        "creators": [],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1976-01-08T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1920,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "c. 1920s",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [
            "Mask (mfon Ekpo)"
        ],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:50:50.977000"
    }
}