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        "id": 156295,
        "accession_number": "1992.129",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Beer Container (M\u00e1huetan), c. 1940. Amazonia, Peru, Ucayali River region, Shipibo people. Ceramic, slip; diameter: 79 cm (31 1/8 in.); height: 68 cm (26 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth M. Skala, 1992.129",
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        "title": "Beer Container (M\u00e1huetan)",
        "creation_date": "c. 1940",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1935,
        "creation_date_latest": 1945,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Amazonia, Peru, Ucayali River region, Shipibo people"
        ],
        "technique": "Ceramic, slip",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Art of the Americas",
        "collection": "AA - Andes",
        "type": "Ceramic",
        "measurements": "Diameter: 79 cm (31 1/8 in.); height: 68 cm (26 3/4 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "diameter": {
                "width": 0.79,
                "width_inch": 31,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.125
            },
            "height": {
                "height": 0.68,
                "height_inch": 26,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.75
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 383281,
                    "title": "Stories from Storage",
                    "description": "<i>Stories from Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-02-06T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "<em>The Cosmos Encoiled: Indian Art of the Peruvian Amazon</em>, Center for Inter- American Relations, New York, NY (February 15- April 29, 1984).",
                    "opening_date": "1984-02-15T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "(Peter Koepke, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?\u20131992",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1992\u2013",
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        ],
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        "did_you_know": "This jar is a beer keg used during festivals in the Shipibo-Conibo area of Amazonian Peru.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "Jars like this one are used as beer kegs during multi-day feasts. The shape and colors may reference a tiered cosmos, graduating from the earthen tones of the dark underworld to the bright, light-filled celestial realm. Perhaps extending this idea, the brown, tapered base is buried in the earth to keep the vessel\u2019s contents cool.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79945421"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Gebhart-Sayer, Angelika. <em>The Cosmos Encoiled: Indian Art of the Peruvian Amazon</em>. New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1984.",
                "page_number": "p. 11",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1992.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38\u201379.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 76",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388"
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.129",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Bequest of Elizabeth M. Skala",
        "image_credit": null,
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        "athena_id": 156295,
        "creators": [],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1992-10-19T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1935,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "c. 1940",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "alternate_titles": [],
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:40.147000"
    }
}