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: Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 11-42206, no description available.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 18-5, described as Iron-pointed spear: like 18-3
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: Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 11-1222, described as Roughly shipped stone spear head, “moondah”
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: Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 11-315, described as Spear, set with obsidian
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: Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-19355, described as Three barbed points on wooden shaft, attached with sinew, plus terminal point.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 10-931, described as Steel pointed spear; heavy, wide point; brabba wood shaft
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: Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 11-39607, described as Spear; hardwood shaft is stained red, has carved point attached with gum, which is smeared with white pigment; point has five barbs with white in interstices. Used for fighting and hunting.
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S1958-1959 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (April 3, 1959–unknown)
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S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)
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S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966)
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S1975-1976 #82: Merritt College (May 5, 1976–October 4, 1976)
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S1966-1967 #10: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (September 29, 1966–September 11, 1967)
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S1957-1958 #2: University of California, Riverside (April 2, 1958–November 25, 1958)
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S1961-1962 #56: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (March 27, 1962–March 27, 1962)
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S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966)
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S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966)
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S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966)
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