Purse

Museum number:
1-2354
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010002354
Alternate number:
KM-23 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.15 and Acc.86
Description:
Money box/purse, elk antler, curved, hollow, five incised bands at each end, colored with red pigment; parallel row of dots on one side; rectangular slit carved in center.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Hupa
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1903 and September 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Loans:
S1983-1984 #48: Hoopa Tribal Museum (May 15, 1984–September 21, 1984)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2354, described as Money box/purse, elk antler, curved, hollow, five incised bands at each end, colored with red pigment; parallel row of dots on one side; rectangular slit carved in center.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2354, described as Money box/purse, elk antler, curved, hollow, five incised bands at each end, colored with red pigment; parallel row of dots on one side; rectangular slit carved in center.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2354, described as Money box/purse, elk antler, curved, hollow, five incised bands at each end, colored with red pigment; parallel row of dots on one side; rectangular slit carved in center.

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