Money purse

Museum number:
1-1427
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
11 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.17 and Acc.86
Description:
Antler, hollow, curved; rectangular longitudinal slit at center; incised isosceles triangle design at ends; incised "hand" design at center, surrounded by dots.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Money purses
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1903 and November 20, 1901
Context of use:
For carrying dentalium shells
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 10.9 centimeters and diameter 1.7 centimeters
Comment:
Published: AAE, XXIV, 7, pl 113d.
Loans:
S1979-1980 #72: Hoopa Tribal Museum (June 23, 1980–January 23, 1981)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1427, described as Antler, hollow, curved; rectangular longitudinal slit at center; incised isosceles triangle design at ends; incised "hand" design at center, surrounded by dots.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1427, described as Antler, hollow, curved; rectangular longitudinal slit at center; incised isosceles triangle design at ends; incised "hand" design at center, surrounded by dots.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1427, described as Antler, hollow, curved; rectangular longitudinal slit at center; incised isosceles triangle design at ends; incised "hand" design at center, surrounded by dots.

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