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        "tombstone": "Pair of Seated Figures, 100 BCE\u2013300 CE. Mexico, Nayarit. Ceramic; average: 52.3 x 30.5 x 29.5 cm (20 9/16 x 12 x 11 5/8 in.); part 2: 56 x 31.8 x 30.5 cm (22 1/16 x 12 1/2 x 12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Clara Taplin Rankin, 1998.83",
        "current_location": "233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region",
        "title": "Pair of Seated Figures",
        "creation_date": "100 BCE\u2013300 CE",
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        "measurements": "Average: 52.3 x 30.5 x 29.5 cm (20 9/16 x 12 x 11 5/8 in.); Part 2: 56 x 31.8 x 30.5 cm (22 1/16 x 12 1/2 x 12 in.)",
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                    "id": 216692,
                    "title": "The Art and Archaeology of Ancient West Mexico",
                    "description": "<i>The Art and Archaeology of Ancient West Mexico</i>. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (September 26-December 5, 1998); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (January 9-March 2, 1999).",
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                "description": "Mrs. Alfred M. [Clara Taplin] Rankin [b. 1917], given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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        "description": "This couple-extremely fine examples of their kind-may commemorate the marriage of an important person, such as a chief, but could also represent siblings of a chiefly family. Whatever their relationship, their unity is conveyed by their physical similarities, including their jewelry, which marks high social station. The female is unusual in nursing an infant, likely a reference to generational renewal and the continuation of noble bloodlines. The significance of the male\u2019s activity-beating a turtle-shell drum- is not understood.",
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                "citation": "Townsend, Richard F., and Patricia Rieff Anawalt. <em>Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past</em>. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998.",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cCleveland Acquires Major New Sculpture, Rare Chinese Prints, Contemporary Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs,\u201d October 30, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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