Purse

Museum number:
1-2280
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010002280
Alternate number:
864 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.70 and Acc.86
Description:
Elk antler, curved, curved; rectangular slot at center; tab with hole at one end; raised flange at both ends with transverse incised bands and triangles.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Klamath River, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Klamath River; Lower Klamath River
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Money purses
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1903 and February 10, 1903
Context of use:
Money purse.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 3 centimeters and length 13 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: "15-2543
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2280, described as Elk antler, curved, curved; rectangular slot at center; tab with hole at one end; raised flange at both ends with transverse incised bands and triangles.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2280, described as Elk antler, curved, curved; rectangular slot at center; tab with hole at one end; raised flange at both ends with transverse incised bands and triangles.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2280, described as Elk antler, curved, curved; rectangular slot at center; tab with hole at one end; raised flange at both ends with transverse incised bands and triangles.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2280, described as Elk antler, curved, curved; rectangular slot at center; tab with hole at one end; raised flange at both ends with transverse incised bands and triangles.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2280, described as Elk antler, curved, curved; rectangular slot at center; tab with hole at one end; raised flange at both ends with transverse incised bands and triangles.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 1-2280, described as Elk antler, curved, curved; rectangular slot at center; tab with hole at one end; raised flange at both ends with transverse incised bands and triangles.

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