Money purse
- Museum number:
- 1-1145
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010001145
- Alternate number:
- 3145 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.19
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Made of deer antler, curved, hollow; slit for dentalium shells at center; parallel incised lines near ends at 90 degrees to long axis.
- 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
- 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:
- Money purse.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 12.7 centimeters and width 3.7 centimeters
- Images:
-
- Legacy documentation:
-