Money purse

Museum number:
1-1151
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001151
Alternate number:
3151 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Deer or elk antler fork, hollow; ends of both forks sealed with pitch; string handle threaded through holes in rim of central branch; right angle and isosceles triangles incised in 2 transverse rows; pigment rubbed into grooves.
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 9.4 centimeters and width 13.5 centimeters
Comment:
Published: AAE XXIV, 7, pl 117 l.
Loans:
S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1151, described as Deer or elk antler fork, hollow; ends of both forks sealed with pitch; string handle threaded through holes in rim of central branch; right angle and isosceles triangles incised in 2 transverse rows; pigment rubbed into grooves.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1151, described as Deer or elk antler fork, hollow; ends of both forks sealed with pitch; string handle threaded through holes in rim of central branch; right angle and isosceles triangles incised in 2 transverse rows; pigment rubbed into grooves.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1151, described as Deer or elk antler fork, hollow; ends of both forks sealed with pitch; string handle threaded through holes in rim of central branch; right angle and isosceles triangles incised in 2 transverse rows; pigment rubbed into grooves.

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