Antler, hollow, curved; oval cross section; rectangular longitudinal slot at center; raised flange at each end, with transverse grooves; incised zigzag bands principal design element; tabs at each end on top of purse. Contents: bits of snake skin, medicine root, and feather tipped stick.
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
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 5.6 centimeters and length 16.1 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-2542. Published: BAE-B78 pl 15.
Loans:
S1956-1957 #3: Education Department (UC Berkeley)/Patricia Hughes (July 17, 1956–April 1, 1957), S1979-1980 #72: Hoopa Tribal Museum (June 23, 1980–January 23, 1981), S1987-1988 #36: Mills College (March 11, 1988–May 23, 1988), and S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)