Money purse

Tools

Museum number:: 1-2148
Permalink:: ark:/21549/hm21010002148
Alternate number:: 732 (original number)
Accession number:: Acc.67, Acc.69, and Acc.86
Description:: Antler, hollow, curved; rectangular longitudinal slot at center; raised flanges at each end with 5 transverse grooves; incised acute triangles framing slot.
Donor:: Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:: Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:: California
Culture or time period:: Yurok
Collector:: Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:: 1902
Object type:: ethnography
Object class:: Money purses
Function:: 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:: 1903, January 15, 1903, and July 15, 1902
Context of use:: For carrying dentalium shells.
Department:: Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:: length 9.6 centimeters and width 2.6 centimeters