Money purse

Museum number:
1-1221a-c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21011221a@2dc
Alternate number:
3221 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
(a) Money purse. Antler, hollow, curved; raised flange with 3 grooves at each end; tab at each end. (b) Cover for (a). Antler, rectangular, hole for thong. (c) Thong, wrapped around (a) to secure cover (b).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Requa, Klamath (CDP), Del Norte County
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Requa
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 7, 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
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
(a)— diameter 3.1 centimeters, (b)— width 1.9 centimeters, (b)— length 8.1 centimeters, and (a)— length 12 centimeters
Comment:
Published: "AAE, XXIV, 7, pl 117f
Loans:
S1979-1980 #9: DeAnza College (August 31, 1979–December 17, 1979)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1221a-c, described as (a) Money purse. Antler, hollow, curved; raised flange with 3 grooves at each end; tab at each end. (b) Cover for (a). Antler, rectangular, hole for thong. (c) Thong, wrapped around (a) to secure cover (b).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1221a-c, described as (a) Money purse. Antler, hollow, curved; raised flange with 3 grooves at each end; tab at each end. (b) Cover for (a). Antler, rectangular, hole for thong. (c) Thong, wrapped around (a) to secure cover (b).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1221a-c, described as (a) Money purse. Antler, hollow, curved; raised flange with 3 grooves at each end; tab at each end. (b) Cover for (a). Antler, rectangular, hole for thong. (c) Thong, wrapped around (a) to secure cover (b).

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