Money purse
- Museum number:
- 1-9348
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010009348
- Alternate number:
- 222 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.210
- Description:
- Elk antler, forked, hollow; 4 holes drilled near top, 2 with leather carrying thong attached. Incised converging lines one side.
- Donor:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection place:
- Martin's Ferry, Humboldt County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Humboldt; Martin's Ferry
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- 1906
- Taxon:
- Cervus canadensis
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Money purses
- Function:
- 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
- Accession date:
- 1906
- Context of use:
- For carrying money.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- width 13 centimeters and length 9.7 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1987-1988 #36: Mills College (March 11, 1988–May 23, 1988)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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