Purse

Museum number:
1-20827
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010020827
Alternate number:
254 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.511
Description:
Small elkhorn purse, cover missing. Handcarved; curved; longitudinal rectangular slot at center; incised triangle design on top, ends and sides.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt
Culture or time period:
Klamath River Tribes
Collector:
Edwin Lincoln McLeod and E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection
Collection date:
1893-1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1916
Context of use:
Money purse.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 9 centimeters and width 2.7 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-20827, described as Small elkhorn purse, cover missing. Handcarved; curved; longitudinal rectangular slot at center; incised triangle design on top, ends and sides.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-20827, described as Small elkhorn purse, cover missing. Handcarved; curved; longitudinal rectangular slot at center; incised triangle design on top, ends and sides.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-20827, described as Small elkhorn purse, cover missing. Handcarved; curved; longitudinal rectangular slot at center; incised triangle design on top, ends and sides.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-20827, described as Small elkhorn purse, cover missing. Handcarved; curved; longitudinal rectangular slot at center; incised triangle design on top, ends and sides.

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