Purse

Museum number:
1-2278
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010002278
Alternate number:
862 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.70 and Acc.86
Description:
Elk antler, curved, handcarved; hole in each end (one with leather thong protruding); transverse incised lines at each end; longitudinal slot at center; incised triangles near ends of slot.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Klamath River, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Klamath River; Lower Klamath River
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1903 and February 10, 1903
Context of use:
Money purse.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 14.1 centimeters and diameter 3.7 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-2539" Published: "AAE XXIV, 7, pl 113 b
Loans:
S1972-1973 #100: Humboldt County (California) (May 22, 1973–June 5, 1973)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2278, described as Elk antler, curved, handcarved; hole in each end (one with leather thong protruding); transverse incised lines at each end; longitudinal slot at center; incised triangles near ends of slot.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2278, described as Elk antler, curved, handcarved; hole in each end (one with leather thong protruding); transverse incised lines at each end; longitudinal slot at center; incised triangles near ends of slot.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2278, described as Elk antler, curved, handcarved; hole in each end (one with leather thong protruding); transverse incised lines at each end; longitudinal slot at center; incised triangles near ends of slot.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2278, described as Elk antler, curved, handcarved; hole in each end (one with leather thong protruding); transverse incised lines at each end; longitudinal slot at center; incised triangles near ends of slot.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2278, described as Elk antler, curved, handcarved; hole in each end (one with leather thong protruding); transverse incised lines at each end; longitudinal slot at center; incised triangles near ends of slot.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2278, described as Elk antler, curved, handcarved; hole in each end (one with leather thong protruding); transverse incised lines at each end; longitudinal slot at center; incised triangles near ends of slot.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2278, described as Elk antler, curved, handcarved; hole in each end (one with leather thong protruding); transverse incised lines at each end; longitudinal slot at center; incised triangles near ends of slot.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2278, described as Elk antler, curved, handcarved; hole in each end (one with leather thong protruding); transverse incised lines at each end; longitudinal slot at center; incised triangles near ends of slot.

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