Money purse

Museum number:
1-1149
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001149
Alternate number:
3149 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Deer antler, hollow; slit for dentalium shells at center; incised dentate pattern and single band at each end.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Klamath River below Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Klamath River area; Klamath R. below Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 1901
Taxon:
Odocoileus
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:
length 8.7 centimeters and diameter 1.9 centimeters
Comment:
Published: AAE XXIV, 7, pl 117 h.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1149, described as Deer antler, hollow; slit for dentalium shells at center; incised dentate pattern and single band at each end.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1149, described as Deer antler, hollow; slit for dentalium shells at center; incised dentate pattern and single band at each end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1149, described as Deer antler, hollow; slit for dentalium shells at center; incised dentate pattern and single band at each end.

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