Money purse
- Museum number:
- L-12109a
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210l012109a
- Accession number:
- Acc.806
- Description:
- (a) Money purse. Made of elk antler, hollow, oval cross section; wooden plug at each end of core; longitudinal rectangular slot at center; tab at each end of purse.
- Donor:
- Jeremiah B. Lillard and Sacramento County Board of Education
- Collection place:
- Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- Jennie M. Worthington and Jeremiah B. Lillard
- Collection date:
- 1932
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Money purses
- Function:
- 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
- Accession date:
- February 16, 1942
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Legacy documentation:
-