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: Hearst Museum object titled Fish spear, accession number 2-35777, described as Fish spear. Partial shaft only. Wood and whale bone with commercial twine wrapping.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Fish spear, accession number 2-1796, described as Fish spear
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: Hearst Museum object titled Ihe (spear), accession number 11-52, described as Eight-pointed spear for fishing.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 11-42049, no description available.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 11-1190, described as Wrapped spear
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: Hearst Museum object titled Spear, accession number 2-1716, described as Three tapered points, inner edges barbed, attached to wooden shaft with sinew.
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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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S1965-1966 #38: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 9, 1965–November 9, 1965)
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S1975-1976 #82: Merritt College (May 5, 1976–October 4, 1976)
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S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966)
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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 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
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