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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone shell, accession number R2024.1.11, described as shell: abalone fragments CA-CCO-137 Robert F. Heizer
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone shell, accession number 1-132910, described as Small, with traces of asphaltum.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Abalone shell fragment, accession number 1-TEMP32, no description available.
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: Hearst Museum object titled Bone and shell, accession number NAP57.705, described as 583.6 g of animal bone fragments, many burnt, and shell pieces. S7W2; 0-6
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: Hearst Museum object titled Clam shell, accession number 11-12371, described as Clam shell
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: Hearst Museum object titled Clam shell, accession number 11-12370, described as Small species clam
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: Hearst Museum object titled Clam shell, accession number 11-12372, described as Clam shell, another species.
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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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S1972-1973 #77: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Thomas Roy Hester (April 6, 1973–July 4, 1973)
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S1972-1973 #91: Southeast Asian Studies (UC Berkeley) (May 1, 1973–May 2, 1973)
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S1973-1974 #60: Southeast Asian Studies (UC Berkeley) (March 1, 1974–March 5, 1974)
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S2001-2002 #19: Integrative Biology (UC Berkeley)/Timothy D. White (April 10, 2002–June 2, 2023)
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S2013-2014 #5: Patrick V. Kirch/Scarlett Chiu (May 14, 2014–June 30, 2014)
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