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        "accession_number": "1982.341.1",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Bracelet, before 1927. Africa, West Africa, Liberia, Dan-style maker. Copper alloy; overall: 16 x 14.2 cm (6 5/16 x 5 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Willett Rankin Wilson, in memory of Audley R. and Edna Moore Wilson, 1982.341.1",
        "current_location": "108A African",
        "title": "Bracelet",
        "creation_date": "before 1927",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1920,
        "creation_date_latest": 1927,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Africa, West Africa, Liberia, Dan-style maker"
        ],
        "technique": "Copper alloy",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "African Art",
        "collection": "African Art",
        "type": "Jewelry",
        "measurements": "Overall: 16 x 14.2 cm (6 5/16 x 5 9/16 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "overall": {
                "width": 0.16,
                "width_inch": 6,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.3125,
                "depth": 0.142,
                "depth_inch": 5,
                "depth_inch_fraction": 0.5625
            }
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 446033,
                    "title": "Arts of Africa",
                    "description": "<i>Arts of Africa</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 10, 2021-July 2, 2023).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-12-09T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": []
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Collected by Willett Rankin Wilson in Liberia, 1927/28",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->Memorandum from Virginia Crawford to Dr. Lee, 12-8-82, curatorial file</div>",
                    "<div><!--block-->Letter from Willett R. Wilson to Virginia Crawford, 12-20-82, curatorial file</div>"
                ],
                "date": "1927/28",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1984, p. 76<br><br></div>"
                ],
                "date": "1982\u2013",
                "sortorder": 2
            },
            {
                "description": "Willett Rankin Wilson, Lyndhurst, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->Memorandum from Virginia Crawford to Dr. Lee, 12-8-82, curatorial file</div>",
                    "<div><!--block-->Letter from Willett R. Wilson to Virginia Crawford, 12-20-82, curatorial file</div>"
                ],
                "date": "1927/28\u20131982",
                "sortorder": 3
            }
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            "1982.341"
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        "did_you_know": "From 1822 to 1847, the American Colonization Society colonized what became Liberia. Americo-Liberians (Congau) ruled until 1980. However, blacksmiths generally sourced brass for jewelry making from kettles or bullets brought by nearby French colonials from the 1890s onwards.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "This bracelet was created by the \"lost-wax\" (cire-perdue) technique---first modelled in wax, next covered with clay, then heated to melt or \"lose\" the wax, which was replaced by molten brass. Several such anklets were attached at the time of a woman's marriage and only removed after her death. Their weight and decorative richness expressed her husband's wealth and prestige as well as her own favored status, for such a woman was expected to live a life of some leisure while other wives and retainers did farming and domestic chores. The spheres around the perimeter--bells--added beautiful sounds to an impressive sight.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79933959"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.341.1",
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        "creditline": "Gift of Willett Rankin Wilson, in memory of Audley R. and Edna Moore Wilson",
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        "athena_id": 150935,
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1983-03-07T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1920,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "before 1927",
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        "cover_accession_number": "1982.341",
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [],
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:07.970000"
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}