Money purse
- Museum number:
- 1-1328
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010001328
- Alternate number:
- 3572 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.19
- Description:
- Antler, hollow, curved; longitudinal slit at center; undecorated. For carrying dentalium shells
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- F. E. Gist and Philip Mills Jones
- Collection date:
- 1901
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Money purses
- Function:
- 7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
- Accession date:
- December 7, 1901
- Context of use:
- For carrying dentalium shells
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 2.3 centimeters and length 8 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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