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"citation": "Young-S\u00e1nchez, Margaret. \"The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 7 (1992): 234-75.",
"page_number": "Referenced: cat. no. 23, p. 268, Reproduced: fig. 23, p. 243",
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