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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 L-19467, 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-18809, described as Whole.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number L-18813, described as Whole.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number 1-219897, described as Worked abalone shell.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone, accession number 1-25309, described as Large, banjo, damaged.
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Robert Fleming Heizer
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James Allan Bennyhoff
1,617
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Ronald Leroy Olson
1,207
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Anthropology 195
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Max Uhle
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Clement W. Meighan
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Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
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University of California Archaeological Survey
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Robert Fleming Heizer
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst
1,902
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1,274
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1,036
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77
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711
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635
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S1964-1965 #74: State of California, Division of Beaches and Parks/Francis A. Riddell (March 19, 1965–September 2, 1981)
250
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S2001-2002 #15: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (January 23, 2002–January 23, 2003)
184
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S1942-1943 #5: Edgar Anderson/Edgar Anderson (March 1, 1943–June 15, 1943)
176
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S2004-2005 #8: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (May 17, 2005–June 20, 2025)
170
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S1949-1950 #1: University of Washington/William Clifford Massey (dates unknown)
114
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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: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Thomas Roy Hester (April 6, 1973–July 4, 1973)
49
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S1966-1967 #13: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Ingrid Brabender (October 22, 1966–December 9, 1966)
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D2018.001: Department of Anthropology (UC Davis)/Candice Ralston (October 28, 2018–April 12, 2022)
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