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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number L-19464, described as 20 circular abalones - 11 rectangular abalones"; "20 circular", the "s" in the first "abalones", "11", and the second "abalones" all crossed out in pencil (dittoed down from L-19456).
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number L-13885, described as Abalone shell blank and paint mixer.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number L-19461, described as 20 circular abalones - 11 rectangular abalones"; "20 circular", the "s" in the first "abalones", "11", and the second "abalones" all crossed out in pencil (dittoed down from L-19456).
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number L-19459, described as 20 circular abalones - 11 rectangular abalones"; "20 circular", the "s" in the first "abalones", "11", and the second "abalones" all crossed out in pencil (dittoed down from L-19456).
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number L-19458, described as 20 circular abalones - 11 rectangular abalones"; "20 circular", the "s" in the first "abalones", "11", and the second "abalones" all crossed out in pencil (dittoed down from L-19456).
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number 1-25309, described as Large, banjo, damaged.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number 1-219758, described as Shell (abalone).
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number 1-35617, described as Crescent; made of abalone, broken.
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Richard Shutler Jr.
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Delila S. Gifford
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Robert Fleming Heizer
3,732
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James Allan Bennyhoff
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Ronald Leroy Olson
1,213
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Francis A. Riddell
1,196
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Max Uhle
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Clement W. Meighan
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Viking Fund Incorporated
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Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
4,207
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University of California Archaeological Survey
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Robert Fleming Heizer
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst
2,056
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Ronald Leroy Olson
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1,173
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Colin L. Busby
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Zea mays
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362
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182
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Haliotis rufescens (red abalone)
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Mytilus californianus
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Acc.1187
4,091
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1,494
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751
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S1964-1965 #91: Mrs. Freddie Curtis/Richard Shutler Jr. (April 28, 1965–September 28, 1965)
412
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S1964-1965 #108: Mrs. Freddie Curtis/Richard Shutler Jr. (June 21, 1965–March 31, 1966)
282
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S1964-1965 #74: State of California, Division of Beaches and Parks/Francis A. Riddell (March 19, 1965–September 2, 1981)
259
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S2001-2002 #15: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (January 23, 2002–January 23, 2003)
186
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S2004-2005 #8: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (dates unknown)
170
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S1950 #1: University of Washington/William Clifford Massey (dates unknown)
117
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S2008-2009 #11: Seed Lab, Plant Pest Diagnostics Center (CA Dept. of Food and Agriculture)/Department of Agriculture, UC Davis (April 6, 2009–December 1, 2009)
81
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S1987-1988 #41: University of North Carolina/Geirge R. Holcomb (March 29, 1988–July 6, 1990)
74
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S1972-1973 #77: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Thomas Roy Hester (April 6, 1973–July 4, 1973)
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S1966-1967 #13: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Ingrid Brabender (October 22, 1966–December 9, 1966)
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