Money purse

Museum number:
1-9482
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010009482
Alternate number:
50 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.233
Description:
Deer antler, curved, hollow; rectangular longitudinal slot at center; raised flange at each end; with transverse grooves; incised zigzag lines principal motif.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1906
Taxon:
Odocoileus
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 dentalium shells
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 9.8 centimeters and diameter 2.8 centimeters
Comment:
Published: AAE XXIV, 7, pl. 115 c.
Loans:
S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-9482, described as Deer antler, curved, hollow; rectangular longitudinal slot at center; raised flange at each end; with transverse grooves; incised zigzag lines principal motif.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-9482, described as Deer antler, curved, hollow; rectangular longitudinal slot at center; raised flange at each end; with transverse grooves; incised zigzag lines principal motif.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-9482, described as Deer antler, curved, hollow; rectangular longitudinal slot at center; raised flange at each end; with transverse grooves; incised zigzag lines principal motif.

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