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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 11-34899, no description available.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 4-1843, described as Spondylus pictorum shell.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 4-2391, described as Marine shell, Conus Fergusoni.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 11-27560.1, no description available.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 11-30187, described as Bivalve shell
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 11-19111, described as Bivalve shell.
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S1964-1965 #91: Mrs. Freddie Curtis/Richard Shutler Jr. (April 28, 1965–September 28, 1965)
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S1964-1965 #108: Mrs. Freddie Curtis/Richard Shutler Jr. (June 21, 1965–March 31, 1966)
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S1958-1959 #1: California Academy of Sciences/Alan E. Leviton (April 8, 1958–1958)
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S1985-1986 #37: State Archaeology Lab/Peter Schultz (May 7, 1986–June 12, 1986)
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S1971-1972 #13: California State University, Sacramento (August 16, 1971–September 9, 1971)
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S2007-2008 #8: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (February 25, 2008–June 24, 2010)
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S1975-1976 #59: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Donna Garaventa (March 2, 1976–March 2, 1976)
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D2017.001: California State Parks/Richard Fitzgerald (January 23, 2017–n/a)
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S1945-1946 #3: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (dates unknown)
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S1958-1959 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (April 3, 1959–unknown)
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