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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-83797, described as Margaritafera m. spoon ? fragments Gonidea Augulata.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-74904, described as Small shell
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-80875, described as Gonidea angulata.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-148728, described as Goniobasis occata (Hinds).
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-105059, described as Macoma nasuta.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-83814, described as Margaritifera m., gonidea augulata, anadonta sp? probably nutallii
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 1-148736, described as Unmodified, unidentified.
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Franklin Fenenga
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Arnold R. Pilling
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S1964-1965 #74: State of California, Division of Beaches and Parks/Francis A. Riddell (March 19, 1965–September 2, 1981)
103
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S2001-2002 #15: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (January 23, 2002–January 23, 2003)
24
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S2004-2005 #8: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (dates unknown)
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S1985-1986 #37: State Archaeology Lab/Peter Schultz (May 7, 1986–June 12, 1986)
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S1967-1968 #111: Department of Anthropology (UC Davis)/Jerald Jay Johnson (February 20, 1969–February 18, 1982)
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S1968-1969 #82: University of California, Davis (February 20, 1969–unknown)
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S1970-1971 #22: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo/Robert L. Hoover (September 25, 1970–April 12, 1971)
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S1978-1979 #57: John Foster/John Foster (March 26, 1979–April 1, 1983)
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S1963-1964 #74: San Francisco State University (March 20, 1964–January 7, 1965)
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S1964-1965 #70: Department of Anthropology (CSU Sacramento)/Sam Payen (March 12, 1965–May 1965)
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