Money purse

Museum number:
1-1329
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001329
Alternate number:
3573 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Antler, hollow, curved; longitudinal slit at center; raised flange at each end; undecorated.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Weitchpec
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
F. E. Gist and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
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
Context of use:
For carrying dentalium shells
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 2.2 centimeters and length 9.6 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1329, described as Antler, hollow, curved; longitudinal slit at center; raised flange at each end; undecorated.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1329, described as Antler, hollow, curved; longitudinal slit at center; raised flange at each end; undecorated.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1329, described as Antler, hollow, curved; longitudinal slit at center; raised flange at each end; undecorated.

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