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        "title": "If\u00e1 diviner's necklace (\u00f2d\u00ecgb\u00e0 If\u00e1)",
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        "type": "Implements",
        "measurements": "Overall: 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in.); Bag: 21.5 x 19.6 cm (8 7/16 x 7 11/16 in.)",
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                "description": "(Pace Primitive, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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                "date": "?\u20131995",
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        "did_you_know": "Look closely at the minuscule beads used to make the complex patterns of this multicolored necklace containing two pouches with thin strands that are connected by rope-like cords. A Yoruba diviner would have communicated with the spirit world while wearing this accessory.",
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                "citation": "Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.",
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