Money purse
- Museum number:
- 1-1556
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010001556
- Alternate number:
- 140 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.17 and Acc.86
- Description:
- Antler, hollow, longitudinal slot at center; incised acute angle triangles outling slot.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwestern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- 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:
- 1903 and November 20, 1901
- Context of use:
- For carrying dentalium shells.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 15 centimeters and width 5.5 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1996-1997 #3: Great Valley Museum of Natural History (September 4, 1996–December 17, 1996)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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