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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 L-18808, described as Obsidian Small bone object"; "Obsidian" crossed out, "bone object" circled and arrow drawn to L-18806, and "Whole abalone" added in pencil.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number 1-46197, described as Lost
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number 1-36608, described as Fragments, haliotis rufesceus.
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Robert Fleming Heizer
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Ronald Leroy Olson
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James Allan Bennyhoff
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Arnold R. Pilling
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Franklin Fenenga
505
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Sylvia M. Broadbent
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Anthropology 195
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Albert B. Elsasser
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Clement W. Meighan
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University of California Archaeological Survey
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Robert Fleming Heizer
847
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Ronald Leroy Olson
796
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California Archaeological Survey
502
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Sylvia M. Broadbent
394
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst
278
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James Allan Bennyhoff
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Albert Mohr
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California State Indian Museum
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Mytilus californianus
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Leukoma staminea
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393
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Acc.626
273
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Acc.1295
223
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Acc.1133
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162
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158
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Acc.2929
154
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S1964-1965 #74: State of California, Division of Beaches and Parks/Francis A. Riddell (March 19, 1965–September 2, 1981)
198
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S2001-2002 #15: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (January 23, 2002–January 23, 2003)
45
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S2004-2005 #8: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (May 17, 2005–June 20, 2025)
45
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S2007-2008 #8: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (February 25, 2008–June 24, 2010)
21
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S1985-1986 #37: State Archaeology Lab/Peter Schultz (May 7, 1986–June 12, 1986)
19
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S1971-1972 #82: Zoology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (October 10, 1971–May 25, 1972)
13
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S1964-1965 #70: Department of Anthropology (CSU Sacramento)/Sam Payen (March 12, 1965–May 1965)
11
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S1967-1968 #111: Department of Anthropology (UC Davis)/Jerald Jay Johnson (February 20, 1969–February 18, 1982)
11
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S1968-1969 #82: University of California, Davis (February 20, 1969–unknown)
11
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S1978-1979 #57: John Foster/John Foster (March 26, 1979–April 1, 1983)
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