Purse

Museum number:
1-14602
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
410 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.371
Description:
Crude elkhorn purse wound with ribbon braided of white horsehair.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Northern California; Northwestern California
Culture or time period:
California tribes and Northwestern California tribes
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Money purses
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
May 1909
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
A modern piece.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-14602, described as Crude elkhorn purse wound with ribbon braided of white horsehair.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-14602, described as Crude elkhorn purse wound with ribbon braided of white horsehair.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-14602, described as Crude elkhorn purse wound with ribbon braided of white horsehair.

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