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        "tombstone": "Textile Fragment with Cotton Goddess, 800\u2013500 BCE. Andes, south coast, Ica Valley?, Chav\u00edn style. Cotton, pigments; overall: 34.3 x 36.2 cm (13 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.); mounted: 39.1 x 41.3 cm (15 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2017.56",
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        "title": "Textile Fragment with Cotton Goddess",
        "creation_date": "800\u2013500 BCE",
        "creation_date_earliest": -800,
        "creation_date_latest": -500,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Andes, south coast, Ica Valley?, Chav\u00edn style"
        ],
        "technique": "Cotton, pigments",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Textiles",
        "collection": "T - Pre-Columbian",
        "type": "Textile",
        "measurements": "Overall: 34.3 x 36.2 cm (13 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.); Mounted: 39.1 x 41.3 cm (15 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
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                "height": 0.343,
                "width": 0.362
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                "height": 0.391,
                "width": 0.413
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "<em>Messages from Minus Time: Revolutionary Textiles of the Chavin Culture of Peru, </em>The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C. (2000).",
                    "opening_date": "2000-01-01T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
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            {
                "description": "Jean Leons, Paris, France, sold to a Private Collector",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "-1972",
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            },
            {
                "description": "Private Collector, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "date": "1972-2017",
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        "did_you_know": "The fragment comes from a larger textile, perhaps a ceremonial hanging.",
        "description": "The figure painted on this fragment represents a female deity with a large, fanged mouth. Further fanged heads occur on the chest, legs, feet, waist, and staffs of authority she holds. Edging both the staffs and the top of the head are white cotton bolls that have caused the deity to be dubbed the Cotton Goddess and associated with nature\u2019s fertility.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79872333"
            ],
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2017.56-textile-fragment-wit"
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Patricia Lyon, \u201cFemale Supernaturals in Ancient Peru,\u201d <em>Nawpa Pacha</em>, vol. 16 (1978).",
                "page_number": "plate XXIX",
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            },
            {
                "citation": "Junius B. Bird Pre-Columbian Textile Conference, Junius Bouton Bird, Ann Pollard Rowe, Elizabeth P. Benson, and Anne-Louise Schaffer. <em>The Junius B. Bird Pre-Columbian Textile Conference,</em> May 19th and 20th, 1973. 1979.",
                "page_number": "figs. 21 and 22",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Cordy-Collins, Alana.<em> An Iconographic Study of Chavi\u0301n Textiles from the South Coast of Peru: The Discovery of a Pre-Columbian Catechism. </em>Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms International, 1980.",
                "page_number": "p. 76",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Brinckerhoff, Deborah. <em>Weaving for the Gods: Textiles of the Ancient Andes : October 30, 1999 to March 19, 2000</em>. 1999.",
                "page_number": "Cat. No. 10",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Conklin, William J., and Jeffrey Quilter.<em> Chavi\u0301n: Art, Architecture, and Culture</em>. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 2008.",
                "page_number": "p. xv",
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