Money purse

Museum number:
1-1148
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010001148
Alternate number:
3148 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Object count:
1
Description:
Money purse. Deer antler, hollow; slit for dentalium shells at center; tab at each end (purpose unknown); incised dentate pattern around each end; 3 incised bands closer to center; zigzag band at one end.
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:
diameter 3.4 centimeters and length 14.5 centimeters
Comment:
Published: AAE XXIV, 7, pl 117 j.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1148, described as Money purse. Deer antler, hollow; slit for dentalium shells at center; tab at each end (purpose unknown); incised dentate pattern around each end; 3 incised bands closer to center; zigzag band at one end.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1148, described as Money purse. Deer antler, hollow; slit for dentalium shells at center; tab at each end (purpose unknown); incised dentate pattern around each end; 3 incised bands closer to center; zigzag band at one end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Money purse, accession number 1-1148, described as Money purse. Deer antler, hollow; slit for dentalium shells at center; tab at each end (purpose unknown); incised dentate pattern around each end; 3 incised bands closer to center; zigzag band at one end.

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