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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number 1-25309, described as Large, banjo, damaged.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number L-18808, described as Obsidian Small bone object"; "Obsidian" crossed out, "bone object" circled and arrow drawn to L-18806, and "Whole abalone" added in pencil.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number L-13885, described as Abalone shell blank and paint mixer.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number L-19461, described as 20 circular abalones - 11 rectangular abalones"; "20 circular", the "s" in the first "abalones", "11", and the second "abalones" all crossed out in pencil (dittoed down from L-19456).
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Clement W. Meighan
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Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
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University of California Archaeological Survey
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Robert Fleming Heizer
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S1964-1965 #74: State of California, Division of Beaches and Parks/Francis A. Riddell (March 19, 1965–September 2, 1981)
254
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S2004-2005 #8: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (dates unknown)
115
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S2001-2002 #15: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (January 23, 2002–January 23, 2003)
106
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S1966-1967 #13: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Ingrid Brabender (October 22, 1966–December 9, 1966)
46
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S1972-1973 #77: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Thomas Roy Hester (April 6, 1973–July 4, 1973)
46
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D2018.001: Department of Anthropology (UC Davis)/Candice Ralston (October 28, 2018–April 12, 2022)
42
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S1950 #1: University of Washington/William Clifford Massey (dates unknown)
40
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S1970-1971 #99: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Alan D. Albee (March 17, 1971–October 16, 1974)
37
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S2017-2018 #6: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Cuthrell (February 5, 2018–June 16, 2021)
35
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S2017-2018 #5: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Cuthrell (October 26, 2017–June 16, 2021)
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