by Stéphane Duckett
Stone artefacts in Oceanic Art are relatively uncommon and almost wholly limited to axe or club heads. It is perhaps not surprising that in the Massim area, given the relative scarcity of this material, axe heads were used as the basis for currency in the late nineteenth century. To find a stone implement other than an axe or club head is unusual. As is the case for much of pre-contact Oceanic culture where there is no historical written record, such objects, when they . . .
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