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Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 11-37265, described as Pointing bone. Length of sharpened bone with length of twisted hair attached to use with lumps of pitch gum, w/ string, used in witchcraft

Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 11-12336, described as Wooden awl

Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 11-929, described as Knife, for cutting off heads.

Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 11-38710a, no description available.

Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 11-23773, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 11-930, described as Bone awl

Hearst Museum object titled Awl?, accession number 11-38915, described as Pointed palmwood stick; probably an awl

Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Awl: bone, accession number 11-12458, described as Bone awl

Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Awl: bone, accession number 11-12459, described as Kangaroo bone awl for making bark basket

Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bone awl, accession number 11-12461, described as Frag. bone awl for manufacture of bark basket

Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 11-37265, described as Pointing bone. Length of sharpened bone with length of twisted hair attached to use with lumps of pitch gum, w/ string, used in witchcraft

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Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 11-930, described as Bone awl

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Hearst Museum object titled Awl?, accession number 11-38915, described as Pointed palmwood stick; probably an awl

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Bone awl7 objects
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Awl: bone2 objects
Awl?1 objects
Bone awl fragment1 objects
Bone needle1 objects
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Wood awl w/ incomplete armband wrapped in grass1 objects

Piercing toolsRemove constraint Object class: Piercing tools20 objects
Awls19 objects
Needles (piercing tools)1 objects

ethnography16 objects
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image10 objects
legacy documentation7 objects

OceaniaRemove constraint Collection place: Oceania20 objects
Melanesia11 objects
New Guinea, Melanesia10 objects
Australia9 objects
Bathurst Island, Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory8 objects
Northern Territory, Australia8 objects
Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory, Australia8 objects
Angkruk village, Central Jalemo, West Papua Province, Indonesia6 objects
West Papua Province, Indonesia, Melanesia6 objects
Western New Guinea Island, Indonesia6 objects

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[Missing]20 objects

Phoebe Apperson Hearst3 objects
Edward W. Gifford1 objects
Richard Shutler Jr.1 objects

Klaus Koch6 objects
University Appropriation6 objects
Arnold R. Pilling4 objects
H. R. Balfour4 objects
Phoebe Apperson Hearst3 objects
R. D. J. Weathersbee1 objects
Viking Fund Incorporated1 objects

Oceanian cultures13 objects
Aboriginal Australians9 objects
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders9 objects
Tiwi people (N20)8 objects
Asian cultures5 objects
Indonesian cultures5 objects
Maritime Southeast Asian cultures5 objects
Southeast Asian cultures5 objects
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New Guinea, Papua Island4 objects

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Bone (material)2 objects
Wood (plant material)1 objects

Acc.22196 objects
Acc.11504 objects
Acc.183 objects
Acc.10881 objects
Acc.16171 objects

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Current results range from 1901 to 1966

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[Missing]5 objects

1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits12 objects
8.3 For Manufacturing3 objects
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies1 objects

S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966)1 objects
S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)1 objects
S1966-1967 #94: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 18, 1967–April 18, 1967)1 objects
S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968)1 objects

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