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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 11-33718, no description available.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 4-936, described as Shell of Spondylus pictorum.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Shell, accession number 3-14530, described as Unmodified shell
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Delila S. Gifford
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Francis A. Riddell
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Robert Fleming Heizer
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Max Uhle
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Ronald Leroy Olson
522
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James Allan Bennyhoff
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Franklin Fenenga
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University of California Archaeological Survey
1,153
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst
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Robert Fleming Heizer
649
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Ronald Leroy Olson
555
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William Clifford Massey
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Shell (animal material)
755
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Spondylus pictorum
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Conus fergusoni
148
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Olivella shell
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52
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Clam shell (salt water)
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S1964-1965 #74: State of California, Division of Beaches and Parks/Francis A. Riddell (March 19, 1965–September 2, 1981)
104
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S1949-1950 #1: University of Washington/William Clifford Massey (dates unknown)
27
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S2001-2002 #15: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (January 23, 2002–January 23, 2003)
22
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S2004-2005 #8: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (May 17, 2005–June 20, 2025)
16
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S1985-1986 #37: State Archaeology Lab/Peter Schultz (May 7, 1986–June 12, 1986)
9
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S1967-1968 #111: Department of Anthropology (UC Davis)/Jerald Jay Johnson (February 20, 1969–February 18, 1982)
8
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S1968-1969 #82: University of California, Davis (February 20, 1969–unknown)
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S1970-1971 #22: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo/Robert L. Hoover (September 25, 1970–April 12, 1971)
8
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S1978-1979 #57: John Foster/John Foster (March 26, 1979–April 1, 1983)
7
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S1963-1964 #74: San Francisco State University (March 20, 1964–January 7, 1965)
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