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Peru
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Department of La Libertad, Northern Peru
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Moche valley, La Libertad Region, Northern Peru
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Moche, Moche valley, La Libertad Region
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Max Uhle
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George Andrew Reisner
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst
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Edward W. Gifford
108
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Elmer J. Dawson
103
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Isabel T. Kelly
79
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Delila S. Gifford
55
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Richard Shutler Jr.
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Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
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Arthur S. Hunt
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst
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Max Uhle
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Elmer J. Dawson
107
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Isabel T. Kelly
79
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Gladys Ayer Nomland
64
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Jorgen O. Nomland
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Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
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University of California Archaeological Survey
51
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Viking Fund Incorporated
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Raymond Parkett
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Beverly Knight
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Craig D. Bates
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Shibayama
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Sue Six
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Sweilmeh of Jahena tribe
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Conus fergusoni
786
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Spondylus
108
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81
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Faience (composite material)
64
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Spondylus pictorum
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Conus fergusoni
790
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Haliotis
9
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Clinocardium nuttallii
3
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Yucca
3
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Dentaliidae
2
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Fissurellidae
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Natica
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Oliva
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Horus (Egyptian deity)
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Acc.81
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Acc.88
464
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Acc.54/56/63/107
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Acc.25
114
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Acc.749
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Acc.163
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Acc.828
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Acc.855
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Acc.54
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Acc.1187
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2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
94
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1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
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5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
26
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1.1 Hunting and Fishing
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7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
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5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
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2.1 Daily Garb
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2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
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S1974-1975 #60: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (February 18, 1975–August 1975)
45
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S1958-1959 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (April 3, 1959–unknown)
26
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S2008-2009 #13d: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Darren Modzelewski (June 26, 2009–June 23, 2010)
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S1929: Los Angeles Natural History Museum (May 1929–1945)
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S1987-1988 #33: Jerry Strom (February 26, 1988–March 1, 1988)
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S1978-1979 #57: John Foster/John Foster (March 26, 1979–April 1, 1983)
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S1968-1969 #78: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Alice Kalmer (February 4, 1969–June 16, 1969)
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S1975-1976 #59: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Donna Garaventa (March 2, 1976–March 2, 1976)
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S1963-1964 #24: Oakland High School/Milo S. Popovich (October 11, 1963–November 15, 1963)
5
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S1945-1946 #3: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (dates unknown)
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