Money box
- Museum number:
- 1-92
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010000092
- Alternate number:
- 2092 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.13
- Description:
- Money purse. Antler, hollow; tab and raised flange at each end; transverse incisions on flanges; longitudinal slot at center.
- Donor:
- John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwestern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Hupa and Yurok
- Collector:
- John Preston Stanley and Philip Mills Jones
- Collection date:
- July 1901
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
- Accession date:
- August 1901
- Context of use:
- Money purse.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- width 2.9 centimeters and length 11.2 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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