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Gruener, 1990.172", "current_location": null, "title": "Figurine with Back Rack", "creation_date": "300\u2013900 CE", "creation_date_earliest": 300, "creation_date_latest": 900, "artists_tags": [], "culture": [ "Mexico, Maya, Jaina style" ], "technique": "molded and modeled pottery with traces of pigment", "support_materials": [], "department": "Art of the Americas", "collection": "AA - Mesoamerica", "type": "Sculpture", "measurements": "Overall: 23.2 x 10.6 x 7.5 cm (9 1/8 x 4 3/16 x 2 15/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "overall": { "height": 0.232, "height_inch": 9, "height_inch_fraction": 0.125, "width": 0.106, "width_inch": 4, "width_inch_fraction": 0.1875, "depth": 0.075, "depth_inch": 2, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.9375 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": { "current": [], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Wolfgang Paalen, sold? to Black Tulip Galleries, Inc., Dallas, TX", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1946?-before 1958", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "(Black Tulip Galleries, Inc., Dallas, TX, 1958, sold to James C. and Florence C. Gruener)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1958", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1958-1990", "sortorder": 3 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1990", "sortorder": 4 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Figurines from Jaina, an elite Maya burial ground, served as companions for the dead.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Maya figurines\u2014made by hand, with molds, or sometimes a combination of the two techniques\u2014represent a wide range of human, animals, and supernatural beings. This example is a male with an enormous backrack, an article of ceremonial attire worn by dancers and other courtly personnel. 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